Re: [MacPerl] Duplicating a file on a mac?

[Rob Sirota <robert_sirota@palm.com>]

I tried copy('a', 'b') but sent in the full paths since a & b are not 
in the same folder. It does not work either...

Rob

At 5:40 PM +0000 8/31/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 10:11 -0700 1999.08.31, Rob Sirota wrote:
> >I just noticed that my script for duplicating a file has problems it
> >a file has a resource fork too. If I call:
> >
> >    FSpFileCopy($src, $dPath, $dsFile, 1);
> >
> >only the datafork gets created in the new file. Is there a file copy
> >that will take a file that has both a resource and data fork on the
> >mac and make a new file?
>
>FSpFileCopy copies resource forks.
>
>  use Mac::MoreFiles;
>  chdir('Bourque:Desktop Folder:') or die $!;
>  FSpFileCopy('a', ':', 'b', '') or die $^E;
>  # create Bourque:Desktop Folder:b, including resource fork
>
>But you might be better off using File::Copy.
>
>  use File::Copy;
>  chdir('Bourque:Desktop Folder:') or die $!;
>  copy('a', 'b') or die $^E;
>
>File::Copy includes FSpFileCopy() so the resource fork and data fork are
>properly copied.
>
>--
>Chris Nandor          mailto:pudge@pobox.com         http://pudge.net/
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