---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PathConvert module 0.1 for perl version5 Shigio Yamaguchi 23-Oct-1996 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction This module has three subroutines and a sample application. realpath - make a canonicalized absolute path name abs2rel - make a relative path from an absolute path '/usr/src/bin' and '/usr/local/lib' -> '../../src/bin' (target directory) (current directory) rel2abs - make an absolute path from a relative path '../../src/bin' and '/usr/local/lib' -> '/usr/src/bin' (target directory) (current directory) mkshadow - a sample application of PathConvert module This command duplicate directory tree with relative symbolic link. 2. Method for test and install You need perl version 5.002 or later. % perl Makefile.PL % make % make test # make install <- as a root 3. Files list README ... this file Makefile.PL ... makefile for test and install PathConvert.pm ... PathConvert module mkshadow ... sample application of PathConvert module test.pl ... test script MANIFEST ... file list 4. Copyright Copyright (c) 1996 Shigio Yamaguchi. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Please enjoy and report any bugs to . Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Home Page: (You can find the latest version here.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------