Re: [MacPerl] Newbie question

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 12:45 PM -0500 9/29/00, <CoDeReBeL@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm also assuming that Perl will refuse to open a file for writing that
>already is, which also seems reasonable.

This depends entirely on the operating system.  It certainly isn't 
true under Unix, where you can open a file for writing as many times 
as you want.  It may or may not be true for MacPerl.  You might be 
able to find out from Mac OS using a toolbox call.


>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
>Rusty

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