>At 7:52 AM -0600 2/2/01, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hardcoding the volume name and complete path is not an option as I
>>want this to be more portable to other machines. Seams like I
>>already tried to put a : at the beginning of the pathname, (it
>>didn't work.)
>>
>>
>Paul Schinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
>If "it didn't work", then there can only be two reasons. One is that
>the filesystem may not let you append (>>) to a file that doesn't
>exist. Try > instead. The second is that you may not be in the
>directory you think you are when you try to open the file. Put a
>"print `pwd`" in the script and see where it thinks it is.
>
>The : at the beginning of the path is correct, though. Leaving it off is not.
>
Are you getting the "SEVER ERROR" on a Mac server? Using the ':' delimiter
will not work on platforms other than MacOS. If in dout add "print $^O;" in
your script to see which operating system. Try '/' for the delimiter for
Unix servers.
David Seay
http://www.mastercall.com/g-s/
