Re: [MacPerl] dropping aliases on droplets

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

Paul writes:

> 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.

Well, I'm unconvinced. Here's why. First, in the example I was
thinking of there were no dropped files, I used FSpIterateDirectory
and it resolved the symbolic links. OK, not conclusive, but then I
tried simple file tests on a hard coded path to one of my alias
files. The -l returns true, but -f is clearly acting on the file
pointed to by the alias... I tried several kinds of file access
operations and they all acted on the pointed-to file, not the alias
file... Though, none of my experiments included Mac I/O toolbox
calls, so I'll stop just short of saying you're wrong... [wink]

jay

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