Re: [MacPerl] SYSOPEN

[online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)]

In article <mac-perl.l03130301b1a81b6bf69a@[210.134.101.67]>, Peter
Hartmann <hartmann@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp> wrote:

>At 13:09 Uhr -0500 12.06.1998, Mark Manning/Simulacron I wrote:
>>O_RDWR and O_CREAT are from C.  Under Unix (and probably other OSs too)
>>there are certain commands which you can use to read from, write to, or
>>append information onto files.  On the Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI)
>>computers using SGI's Unix variant you have:
>>
>>
>>     O_RDONLY
>>            Open for reading only.
>
>[snip]
>
>(I probably should have just said to look it up in the C manual - but I
>do not know if you have such a thing.)
>
>Thanks for this valuable info. Although this is not MacPerl specific, this
>is something you cannot very easily ask on the Perl mailing list, since
>people there generally have a UNIX background, which many MacPerlers, I
>think, don't. Most important for me was, to learn that I can look this up
>in a C-handbook.

Actually, these aren't C constants, they're Unix. (C uses r, w, a, etc.)
So, they're even harder for a Mac user to come by.... So thanks for the
info!
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