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Re: [MacPerl] dropping aliases on droplets
On Mon, 07 Sep 1998 07:49:33 +0000, Jay Bedsole wrote:
>
>Rich writes:
>
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>> Comments, workarounds, etc, are solicited...
>
>Maybe there's some Mac trick, but I doubt it. I think the alias is
>resolved by the Mac OS, and once resolved, I doubt there is any
>way back to the "actual" alias file. Let me know if you figure it
>out, though - there's been a couple of occasions where I'd like to
>work on the alias file, not the file pointed to...
The obvious thing to do is to populate @ARGV some other way than dropping
files on a droplet. Perl can deal with symbolic links just fine once it
knows their paths.
>
>jay
>
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schinder@pobox.com
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