Re: Remote file access from Windows?

Joe Smith wrote:

> Insufficient information. What are you trying to do?

Thanks Joe. You are completely correct. It was insufficient. What I
was trying to do was access a file on another Windows machine within
it's workgroup. It appears the answer is that Perl will allow me to
use Universal Naming Convention (UNC) pathnames under Microsoft
Windows. UNC pathnames are formatted like \\machinename\sharename.
(Found this out at
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=29311&rl=1.)

I was amazed that such a simple mechanism would (or could) exist under
Windows. I really get the feeling that MS prefers crytic to simple!
Nice to see Windows adopting some of the nicer bits of UNIX...

.

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