Re: [MacPerl] Re: Newlines

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 17.03 10/24/97, Patton, Paul B (MN10) wrote:
>There has been much discussion of newlines and other portability
>issues recently. I apologize if this is a bit off-topic, but I've
>been trying to get the script below, which works just fine on my Mac,
>to run successfully on my Win95 PC. I get no errors messages from
>perl, but it also seems to have no effect at all. Is this a Microsoft
>thing?
>
>#!perl
>$^O = "MacOS";

I dunno what you are asking, exactly, and I wonder WHY you would want to assign to $^O?

Anyway, it works fine on MacPerl 5.1.4r4 and UNIX perl 5.004_04.  I don't know why $^O is not read only, but anyway ...

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