Re: [MacPerl] 2 Simple Questions

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:33:23PM -0500, Jonathan W. Daniel wrote:
} I'm a little new to MacPerl.
} 
} If I port scripts over from Unix, don't I have to change "/" marks in file
} paths, to ":" ? This didn't seem to work for me?

Why do you expect it to just work like that?  Do the files exist in
the same location on you Mac as they do on Unix?  For example, you
can't expect /etc/passwd and :etc:passwd to be the same, can you?
Show us some examples of what you're trying to do.

} 
} Also, could someone tell me a quick way to get the current date without
} using additional modules?

You mean "scalar localtime", or do you want something fancier?

} 
} thanks,
} Jonathan
} 

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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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