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A Note About Portability

• I expect someone will complain that this is not portable

• Because of the \'s

• We could fix this if we needed to:

        # Instead of "$src/$file"
        $src_file = File::Spec->catfile($src, $file);

• Now it works on a Mac

• This of course has a cost---the code is more verbose

• An alternative approach:

• Change the program on the first day it needs to run on a Mac

• This has a cost too, but it might be less expensive

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