Re: [MacPerl] sysopen

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 15.01 -0400 1999.07.12, Geoffrey C Kinnel wrote:
>Chris Nandor wrote:
>>
>> What am I missing (if anything)?
>>
>>   #!perl -wl
>>   use Fcntl;
>>   sysopen FILE, "foo", O_RDWR|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT or die $!;
>>   print FILE "ha!";
>>   close FILE;
>>
>>   __END__
>>
>> Returns:
>>
>>   # Filehandle main::FILE opened only for input.
>>   File 'Untitled #4'; Line 4
>
>I think you might be missing a newer version of perlfunc.pod. The
>one I got with v5.005.03 of 19-Apr-1999 says that the 0,1 and 2
>MODE params don't work on the Mac (or OS/390 or VM/ESA Unix).
>Maybe that's the problem.

That was in reference to the idea that you need to use constants, not
numerals.  The constants should work on any platform.  Paul is right on, I
think.

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