Hi,

on 4/17/01 8:50 AM, Jonathan A. Spinks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
> I've written a perl script on a unix and I want to transfer it to a
> mac..  My main quiestion is are there any implications of transfering my
> script to a mac.  I have already done this for a PC.   The obvious
> conversion differences between a unix box and a PC are things like rm
> which becomes del.  However on a mac what are the low level commands
> like del and copy in dos and mv and rm in unix.  Or is this a stupid
> question.

MacOS does not have access to low level commands.  You have to upgrade to
MacOSX to get this.  Take a look at the perl functions "unlink" and "rename"
to get rm and mv functionality.

enrique

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