[MacPerl] $0 and $]

[Xah Lee <xah@best.com>]

Perhaps this has been discussed before.

When I run

 print $0;

in MacPerl, I get the full path of the file name. But on both Linux and FreeBSD boxes I tried, only the abbreviated path is given, e.g.:

 ./scriptName

Could anyone give some reasoning or explaination?

A second question. When I run print $] on my ISP server (FreeBSD), I get

$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 1.7.2.2 $$Date: 1998/03/12 19:27:47 $
Patch level: 36

what does that mean!? I was expecting someting like 5.004.

 Xah, xah@best.com
 http://www.best.com/~xah/
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