At 21:24 +0100 2002.04.24, FLA wrote:
>I can't get any scripts to run in perl because I can't define the path. It
>installed itself on the hard disk in the application folder, inside a folder
>called MacPerlŸ. I tried defining this as the path, but the scripts weren't
>interested. So I changed a couple of folder names, to make the path
>/Macintoch HD/Applications/usr/bin/MacPerl - but that didn't work either.
>I've tried all the permutations I can think of - substituting ':' for '/',
>calling it perl or MacPerl - if anyone has any other ideas, I'd be really
>grateful.

$ENV{MACPERL} will give you the path to the directory MacPerl is in.
However, if the program doesn't do portable filenames (via File::Spec) but
instead builds paths using "/" etc., then that will break things.

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