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Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 1999 05:08:38 PST8PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Any PERL...

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> > ... You _did_ notice that the slashes (above) are
> > forward, not backward, yes? EMX doesn't care, but
> > OS/2 does. :)

Dallas Legan wrote:
>
> OS/2 or CMD.EXE?
> As I understand things, the forward slashes and path
> and fully qualified file name were generated in
> perl5.exe, or maybe ksh.exe somehow. The installation
> notes for the interpreter specificly show to use
> forward slashes for the PERL5LIB variable.

I didn't realize you'd changed the command interpreter. Don't think
that makes any difference, though.

I need to back up a little so I understand what you're doing.

-- Is this the Hobbes "PERL" posted Jan99? I downloaded it yesterday
and unzipped it, but the documentation files weren't quickly obvious so
I didn't go further. I'll dump the whole directory if this _isn't_ what
you're using. :)

-- Is this a port? (The docs may not have been fully "ported".) If
so, is it running on EMX?

-- Is PERL5.EXE the interpreter that you run to execute your PERL
script?

-- Is the PERL5LIB variable an environment variable (set in CONFIG.SYS
or a startup .cmd file)? If so, did you try changing all "/" to "\" to
see what would happen? When a program issues a file command that
includes a path (which may include "\"), the call doesn't go through
CMD.EXE so you can't rely on the command interpreter to do any /-to-\
conversion. (EMX will do such conversions, but it's not a command
interpreter. I've found that EMX allows both / and \.)

I've always wanted to learn PERL so this is intriguing. As Indiana
Jones' buddy said, "you go first". :))

- Peter Skye

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