Re: [MacPerl] 2 Simple Questions

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 15.06 -0400 1999.04.30, Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca wrote:
>Quoting "Jonathan W. Daniel" <Daniel.71@osu.edu>:
>
>> $myFile = "folder1:myFile.txt";
>>
>> And yes, folder1 is where it should be.
>>
>A relative path (that is, to folder1) is ":folder1:myFile.txt". Otherwise it
>looks like a volume name.
>
>Up one directory is "::".

Now may be a good time to mention Sean Burke's Mac::FileSpec::Unixish,
which translates paths between Mac and Unix representations.

Actually, now that I think of it, maybe it only does Mac -> Unix.  Hrm.
Well, you can look at it yourselves.  :)

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