globbing with Apple's HFS+

2007-05-19 Thread Doug McNutt
The Camel book is a bit scary describing performance of filename globbing with the <*.pl> or the glob("*.pl") syntax with or without "use Cwd" in the preamble. Portability is declared questionable. I find that the only thing that works is <*> within a loop where each file is tested by hand. Co

Re: use of fink

2007-05-19 Thread Tom Allison
On May 19, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Tom Allison wrote: On May 19, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to use fink to install a file that is marked as 'unstable'. But I can't seem to get fink to find it. I changed the file links from stable to unstable and ... nothing. Sorry, I sho

Re: use of fink

2007-05-19 Thread Tom Allison
On May 19, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to use fink to install a file that is marked as 'unstable'. But I can't seem to get fink to find it. I changed the file links from stable to unstable and ... nothing. Sorry, I should have added that I already tried everything in the

use of fink

2007-05-19 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to use fink to install a file that is marked as 'unstable'. But I can't seem to get fink to find it. I changed the file links from stable to unstable and ... nothing.