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Subject: Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, "/dev/cd0", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails
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Glen Barber writes:

>  > I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but
>  > fails on FreeBSD.  The Problem is the line:
>  >
>  > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sysopen(CD, "/dev/cd0", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)
>  >
>  > After this line the following evaluates to true:
>  >
>  > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0$! eq "No such file or directory."
>  >
> =20
>  I may be wrong, but shouldn't that be '/dev/acd0' ?

=09/dev/cd0 =3D SCSI CD-ROM (and maybe other stuff).

=09I don't know if that's what the OP has, but it is a possible
value.


=09=09=09=09Robert Huff