In message <199611061526.QAA13521@err.ethz.ch> you write: >>Tim Guinn writes: >>|>1. in the previous version of perl, cmd-period would stop a running >>|>script. which was quite convenient. >>|Curiously, this has never worked for me. Not sure if it's the kind of >>|brain dead, brute force scripts I'm writing ("Never Say Die!") or >>|something else... >> >>As I reported to Matthias a week or two ago, this worked for me in >>4.xxx, but doesn't in 5.10r2. Sorry. Bug. Fixed in next release. Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri "And that's why I am going to turn this world upside down, and make of it a fire so *bright* that someone real will notice" -- Vernor Vinge, _Tatja Grimm's World_