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[MacPerl] I _may_ have found a bug :-)



What with all of the script versus program talk about bugs
I hesitate to post this.  :-)

Oh what the heck!  :-)

I _MAY_ have found a bug in MacPerl - but it might be my
script so I need a few days to track this down.  What's
happened is that I am developping a script at home on my
PowerPC.  It is running System 7.5.3 and, for the life of
me, I can not get it to upgrade to System 7.5.5 or 7.6.
But that's another story.

Anyway.  The script runs fine on the PowerPC.  But I also
have a PowerBook 165c (maxed out at 14mb memory with a
540mb HD) which is running System 7.5.5.  When I move the
script over to it and run it, the PB165c freezes with the
message:

	Type 1 error with program(if I remember this corretcly)
	"MacPerl"
	Unimplemented trap (RESTART)

Now this is kind of strange to me seeing as how the PowerPC
has 7.5.3 and the PB165c has 7.5.5.  I would not have been
surprised if it had of happened the other way around
though.

What I have tried so far:

1.      I had BIG MacPerl installed at the time so I tried
re-installing MacPerl and used the regular 68k version.
Still happened.

2. Re-installed MacPerl again and went back to BIG MacPerl.
Still happened.

So thus far I've eliminated that it has anything to do with
which version of the 68k MacPerl I'm using.  Next step is
to turn on the debugger and go through the script step by
step until I get to the error.  I'll write down everything
and post it.  Hopefully tomorrow.  :-)