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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
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Subject: Re: C News "upact" in Perl 3.0
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Date: 22 Nov 89 19:33:11 GMT
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According to tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence), my version of upact in
Perl munged his active file by always setting $min to 1 + $max.

Well, I have it on good authority (mine) that the posted script works.
I use it here on this system nightly and it's great.

I suspect that the problem is that your Perl doesn't know how to readdir()
correctly.  Before blaming the script, it might be good to double-check
your Perl with a small test program.
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