[ILUG] OpenOffice.org Location

[Dave O Connor]

Mark Finlay said on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:39:20PM +0100:
> open(SVERSION, $ENV{'HOME'} . "/.sversionrc") or die "Cannot open
> ~/.sversionrc";
> 
> open(SVERSION, $location . "/instdb.ins") or die "Cannot open
> instdb.ins";
> 
> but when I run it I get 
> 
> Cannot open instdb.ins at findlocation.pl line 19.
> 
> I need to suck a variable out of $location/instdb.ins
> but on account of not knowing perl I seem to have bothched
> up the open() function

Make sure $location/instdb.ins exists, and you can read it. 

Also try changing the arguemnt to die to something like:

die "Cannot OPen $location/instdb.ins: $!";

$! returns the last OS error in text form, so that'll be a little more
helpful.

	- DoC