Actually, if g5hd is a mounted (external) hard drive than the /Volumes/gh5d is required. If it's the root, than it's not.
el on 8/23/08 5:33 PM Doug McNutt said the following: > At 08:43 +0100 8/23/08, Eberhard Lisse wrote: [...] > open (TRANS, "</Volumes/g5hd/newScansImages/trans") > or die "Error can't open $!\n"; > > Be really careful about that /Volumes/ directory. Apple uses it as > a mount point for external and secondary disks and not for the > "root" disk which can't have a name other than "/" in the world of > UNIX. > > g5hd sounds a lot like a user inserted name for a main disk. The > proper form in the UNIX - perl5 world would be more like > > /newScansImages/trans > > where the leading solidus is the root directory for the operating > system. [...] But then the line ends didn't have any thing to do with it... el -- If you want to email me, replace nospam with el
