Re: [MacPerl] Generic Search Script

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 10.57 -0500 1999.01.26, Richard Gordon wrote:
>#what OS are we running on?
>$osString = GetHostOS;
>
>#what's the right dir seperator char to use?
>$Dir = GetDirSeperatorChar($osString);
>
>Am I correct in believing that the only point of testing for OS is to use
>the results to determine the proper path separators? If a Perl script has to
>employ CR under Mac, LF under unix and CR/LF under Win as line endings in
>order to run, then it's presumably already been modified to run on the
>specific host platform or it wouldn't be running at all, right?

I would recommend using the File::Spec modules for all path-separator
issues, when possible.  No need to duplicate code.  And you never need to
determine OS for newlines.  Use \n for local newlines, and explicit \015
and \012 for network code.

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