Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: quasi-bug
Message-ID: <15290@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 28 Mar 90 05:26:40 GMT
References: <1121@etnibsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <1121@etnibsd.UUCP> vsh@etnibsd.UUCP (Steve Harris) writes:
>while (<*>) {
...
>Well, to make a long story short, there existed a file in /usr/bin
>named 0.  That's right, the single digit zero...

This problem is cool and crazy on several *levels* of cool and crazy.
It gets my vote for Best Perl Weirdness Of The Week.  :-)

now, back to rewriting login in Perl...

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