Re: [FWP] Down right dirty perl

[Jasvir Nagra <jas@cs.auckland.ac.nz>]

Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi> writes:

> On 20 May 2001, Jasvir Nagra wrote:
> > 
> > Its still pretty flimsy and for the moment, this puppy is Unix
> > only. =( 
> 
> Just as a data point, on my debian/stormix linux box it runs but does
> absolutely nothing, except for a couple of warnings if enabled.  The
> same thing happens on both 5.005_03 and 5.7.1, so it's probably not
> related to the perl version.
> 
> It's probably trying to backtick something that doesn't work the way it
> expects, but I can't figure out what.  Unless of course it's *supposed*
> to do nothing at all..
> 
> -- 
> Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
> "I'd say the number of people in the world who really understand Perl's
>  regex code is about three, plus or minus four."
>                                 -- Larry Wall on the perl5-porters list

*sigh* Yep, its supposed to do something. ;-) I am guessing you are
running the camel as opposed to something Smirch generated? It would
be nice to iron out this bug - what does /bin/sh point to and is perl
in your PATH?  And shhhh....be wery wery quiet about the
backticks. ;-)

Jas
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