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6 Test::Inline::IO::File - Test::Inline Local Filesystem IO Handler
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9 Test::Inline::IO::File is the default IO handler for Test::Inline.
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11 Test::Inline 2.0 was conceived in an enterprise setting, and retains
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13 users the power and complexity that is available is largely hidden away
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16 The intent with the "InputHandler" and "OutputHandle" parameters is to
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18 write the resulting test scripts to anywhere.
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20 Until a more powerful pure-OO file-system API comes along, this module
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24 An alternative IO Handler class need not subclass this one (although it
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28 All methods in this class are provided with unix-style paths, and
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43 The "new" constructor takes a root path on the local filesystem and
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94 Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>, <http://ali.as/>
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97 Copyright 2004 - 2013 Adam Kennedy.
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99 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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102 The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
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