Re: [MacPerl] WebTen path info

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12:00 PM -0400 7/12/98, andrew m. mckenzie wrote:
>I am attempting to move a Unix Perl script (I know, one thousand time
>before...) to a Mac server running WebTen. I do not have total access to
>the box, and thus, in one of the scripts I am using, I make reference to
>the absolute path of the CGI-BIN - but I can't telnet into said box, as
>that capability is turned off/unavailable, and therefore can't use "pwd" or
>similar to identify the path. is there a way to do this without the
>conventional Unix tools?

WebTen uses its own perl, not MacPerl.  Also, chomp($dir = `pwd`); gets you
the current directory under MacPerl.  You can use the Cwd module, which
should be more reliable, and more portable.

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