Old Mac OS and relative pathnames?

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Nov 13 14:48:05 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12:49 am, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
> Ned:
>
> I hope not wasting your time.
> I attach something I use to create directories and moving files to
> correct paths.
> It's for MacPerl 5.2

Thanks, but I think I've licked my Mac Perl path problems (at least in 
my Archive::Zip module)

> For squeak I use this simple mechanism
>
> setFolder
>     slash _ FileDirectory slash.
>     "Toma el separador de directorios, no es el mismo en todos los
> OS" oldFolder _ FileDirectory default.
>     "Guarda el directorio de arranque"
>     newFolder _ FileList2 modalFolderSelector.
>     "Invoca la ventana de dialogo para seleccionar directorio"
>     newFolder _ newFolder pathName , slash.
>     FileDirectory setDefaultDirectory: newFolder
>
> resetFolder
>     FileDirectory setDefaultDirectory: oldFolder pathName
>     "Al teminar volvemos al directorio default"
>
> And this way could create, read, write all kinds of files no matter
> Mac odities.
>
> Sorry Spanish comments, but I wish help quick.

Thanks. This is an interesting idea, but requires user participation. 
I was trying to get my stuff to work without user intervention. I'm a 
bit distressed that I got a "type 2 error" when trying to improve 
#on:.

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