Re: obtaining file (device) name from file handle ?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:21 PM 8/13/2001 -0500, Patrick Spinler wrote:
>So, if I want to accomplish the same thing in perl, I need to discover
>the actual file name associated with an open filehandle.  Is this
>possible ?  Is there some obvious cluetrain in the documentation I
>miraculously missed being flattened by ?

Not generally available in perl, but lucky you, we can do it on VMS! :)

Check out VMS::Stdio, specifically the getname function.

                                        Dan

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