Re: [MacPerl] Running two (or more?) copies of MacPerl

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

In article <mac-perl.v04020a04b262e675c994@[192.168.0.77]>, Chris Nandor
<pudge@pobox.com> wrote:

>At 17.16 -0500 1998.11.01, PwrSurge wrote:
>>WITHIN the APPL, there is a resource called "BNDL" to which the MacOS
>>bundles, for example, "TEXT", "McPL", - all the different file types the
>>APPL can handle.  If you were to select "MacPerl" and hit CMD-D for
>>duplicate, the MacOS uses the *LAST MODIFIED* file, which is the
>>duplicated APPL to launch the perl scripts.
>
>This is not true.  A duplicated file has the last modified date of the
>copied file.  If you duplicate a file last modified on Jan 1 1984, the
>new file will have the same modified date.

As an aside, File::Copy doesn't do this, I believe (ie, you get the
current time as the created/modified date). This is counterintuitive to me
(although I know I could change these values by hand). Should this be
suggested as a change?
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Jeff Clites                Online Editor           http://www.MacTech.com/
online@MacTech.com         MacTech Magazine
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