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- From: jflood@iat.holonet.net (Jim Flood)
- Subject: Re: How to get MPW to work correctly on an A/UX volume?
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- References: <1992Dec16.040036.3300@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:01:54 GMT
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- > As anyone who has used MPW knows, "/" is a character that is
- > used in scripting language for regular expressions. I have a
- > serious need to run MPW off of an A/UX disk, which means, of
- > course, that all full pathnames begin with "/:". This just
- > confuses the hell out MPW and causes it to barf forth with
- > the error message "/s must occur in pairs", which is of no
- > help at all.
-
- I have been trying to use MPW to do some work on an A/UX system for a
- couple of weeks now. I don't have too much trouble having the "/"
- in file and directory names because I quote filename shell variables out of
- habit (e.g. "{Quoted}" vs. {NotQuoted}). This should prevent the "/s must
- occur in pairs".
-
- The trouble I have is that I can't seem to use MPW as anything other than
- a powerful text editor, which is too bad because I would prefer MPW to
- the unix shell. For example, the MPW make program has some things lacking
- in unix make such as directory dependency rules.
-
-
- Also, from the A/UX Developer's Tools CD Readme file:
-
- "One of the problems you will encounter if you use a Unix file system to
- hold the source code for an application you are building with MPW is that
- the behavior of the time and date stamp will be different than for a Macintosh
- volume. This will cause the MPW Build command to incorrectly assume that
- some components have been modified when in fact they have not."
-
-
- Jim Flood
-