Re: [MacPerl] Re: Newlines

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

>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";
>

What are you expecting it to do, other than set $^O to the string "MacOS"
(which is a lie except on the Mac) and then finish?

   --John

--
John Baxter (Born before ENIAC, but not by much.)
   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA



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