Subject goes hereRe: When open doesn't

2002-05-24 Thread notthatbbennett
[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

Re: When open doesn't

2002-05-23 Thread notthatbbennett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This doesn't line up the output as it should but are the results >what you expect? Thanks, I'll give it try next time I'm near the system in question. It might turn up a clue or two. BB ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [E

Re: When open doesn't

2002-05-23 Thread notthatbbennett
[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 fi

Re: When open doesn't

2002-05-23 Thread notthatbbennett
[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 t

Re: When open doesn't

2002-05-23 Thread notthatbbennett
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 wh