[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a detour, have you tried opening a pipe from type to allow you
to read the file contents via perl?
No, haven't, but I think it would probably work, and its a pretty
good idea. What I'll probably do is Win32::File::FileCopy it
back to a temp directory though (all I
Johan Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When open doesn't, print the error message.
Actually, I did. Its just that the system its failing on doesn't
have a good internet connection, and when I was describing the
problem, I was typing in stuff from memory and I forgot to enter
the code
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Change your argument to: E:/BU_0/C/Prefs
The backslash is escaping the characters it preceeds. Alternative:
E:\\BU_0\\C\\Prefs
Nope. Already done both of those (and a lot of other permutations).
I may be a UNIX guy, but I've been in double-backslash hell enough
to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you trying to open a file or a directory? If a directory, you
will need
a trailing slash. If a file, you will almost certainly need to
specify a
file extension. What is your E drive, attached or networked? If
networked,
have you tried the UNC name?
Its a file, on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This doesn't line up the output as it should but are the results
what you expect?
fairly lengthy program deleted
Thanks, I'll give it try next time I'm near the system in question.
It might turn up a clue or two.
BB
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