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From:
ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Date:
October 10, 2023 00:43
Subject:
Raku IO IceDrive bug
Message ID:
a776996f-de74-4783-bade-de57b4140d66@zoho.com
Hi All,

Windows 10 22H2
Windows 11 22H2

RakudoMoar-2023.09.01-win-x86_64-msvc.msi
https://github.com/AntonOks/rakudo-star-win/releases
Note: zef requires git

An IO bug with Windows Ice Drive to report. (I
no longer report them the the bug reporter as I
have zero luck.)

Ice Drive is a cloud storage service that allows
you to use a local drive letter in Windows.

A free account is available from
https://icedrive.net/apps/desktop-laptop

The following will only open a blank file,
regardless of what you then write to it.
The second time you run your program and
the file already exists, it will work properly:


if not FileExists( $WanIpFileName )  {
    $WanIpFileName.IO.open(:w);
    spurt "$WanIpFileName", "New File Opened";
}


Then if you write to the file, nothing goes
into the file.  But when you run the program
a second time, all is well.  Note that the
blank file already exists the second time through.


The work around:

I wrote the following sub to deal with Raku
not being able to handle quotes properly
when trying to run a windows helper program.


my $PathIAm          = $?FILE;
    $PathIAm         ~~ s:global| '/' |\\|;

sub RunCmd( Str $CommandStr, Bool $EchoOff = False )  {
    my Str $BatFile = $PathIAm ~ ".bat";
    my Str $RtnStr;
    my Str $CmdStr = "";

    if $EchoOff  { $CmdStr = Q[@echo off] ~ "\n"; }
    $CmdStr = $CmdStr ~ $CommandStr ~ "\n";
    # print "$CmdStr\n";

    spurt( $BatFile, $CmdStr );
    $RtnStr = qqx { $BatFile };
    # print "$RtnStr\n";
}

RunCmd Q[echo New File Opened > ] ~ $WanIpFileName;


And happy camping returns.  I can write anything
I want to the file after that and it takes.

-T




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