At 15:51 -0400 6/17/1999, Ingo Bitsch wrote: >How can I have a filehandle point to a different directory than the one >of the script itself? To a subfolder, for example? > >I tried open (IN, ">>/subfolder/file"); but it didn't work Are you trying to do this on a Mac? If so, you need to use the Mac path separator (: instead of /) and will probably need to furnish a full path, e.g. open (IN, ">>myHD:myFolder:mySubFolder:myNewFile"); Richard Gordon -------------------- Gordon Consulting & Design Database Design/Scripting Languages mailto:richard@richardgordon.net http://www.richardgordon.net 770.565.8267 ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org