Ben,
on 2/29/08 7:15 PM Jay Savage said the following:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Ben Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thanks for your response copied below. I really don't want to go to Perl 5.x
>> and all that newfangled stuff.
This can only be described as really shortsighted. Not only because this
is the very issue you are having :-)-O
>> Here's my code ending with the offending line 7 according to my BBEdit error
>> msg also copied below. I think the problem must be something simple. BBEdit
>> says the syntax is OK, and it does run OK under Classic. I've tried
>> different path name conventions, ( / instead of : ) but that doesn't seem to
>> help. All files have 777 permissions.
>> 7 open ("trans", "g5hd:newScansImages:trans") or die "Error, can't open";
Assuming read only:
open (TRANS, "</Volumes/g5hd/newScansImages/trans")
or die "Error can't open $!\n";
or
open (TRANS, "</newScansImages/trans")
or die "Error, can't open /newScansImages/trans, $!\n";
greetings, el
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