Re: [MacPerl] trouble copying file contents

[David Ackerman <dackerm@fas.harvard.edu>]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Paul Schinder wrote:

> 
> 
> It's pretty trusting of you to rely on read getting the number of 
> bytes you asked for.  If I were you, I'd check the return value of 
> read, to make sure you're getting what you asked for.


Thanks for pointing this out.  For a programming novice such as myself
this is helpful advice.



> 
> >	print TARGETFILE $data;
> 
> Similarly, print will tell you if it succeeded.
> 


It turns out that this is where the problem was.  Perhaps it was just
because it was the end of a very long day, that I forgot that I had a temp
file and a file on disk, which together exceeded that disks capacity.
Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.


thanks again,

dave


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