[MacPerl] Can't 'print;' with '<' (or '>') ???

[Jeff Shepherd <jeff@trg.saic.com>]

I'm just trying to do a simple 'Print contents of file to stdout'.
Unfortunately, it looks like the format of my input file can affect the
output. Here is my program:

#!/user/local/bin/perl
# Print the contents of a file to STDOUT
require "StandardFile.pl";
print "\Running '$#ARGV'\n";
if ($#ARGV <= 0) {
        $file = &StandardFile'GetFile("rtf file:","TEXT");
} else {
        $file = $ARGV[0];
}
open (F, $file) || die "Could not open $file: $!\n";
while( <F> ) {
   print;
}
close( F );
print "Done.\n";


When I run the program, it errors out on the first line with:

# syntax error, next 2 tokens "bobparks@wired"
File 'js:Programming:Perl:Majordomo'; Line 1
# Illegal octal digit, next char ^?
File 'js:Programming:Perl:Majordomo'; Line 26
# Execution of js:Programming:Perl:Majordomo aborted due to compilation errors.


and the line that is causing the problem is:

"Bob Parks" <bobparks@wired.com> has been added to serial-quotes-digest.


Any clues?  I'm running MacPerl 4.1.8 on a Centris 650, Sys 7.5.3

- Jeff -

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