They are instructions... The read operates similarly to that of the C "read," and the
print is used in place of a "write." (A write in Perl is more like fortran's)
The example in the book is as follows:
while (read(FROM, $buf, 16384)) {
print TO $buf}
Where FROM is the input file, TO is the output.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas G. Thornton) wrote:
><< Can you open it in MacPerl Classic if the name is dragged (drug?) on top of a
>droplet, which would then generate some arbitrary name and copy the file from CD
>to MacHD using a READ/PRINT combination, then you would rename to choice? >>
>
>I can try that. (Having not used READ/PRINT before,) where can I find
>documentation on that? (i.e. which *.pl file) I think that was the sort of idea
>I was trying to get at.
>
>:)
>~wren
