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From: giles@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Giles Lean)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Perl--One Man's Experience
Message-ID: <4080017@hpausla.aso.hp.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 05:20:23 GMT
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Len Reed <lbr@holos0.uucp> writes in comp.lang.perl:
> I got the MS-DOS version of perl working.

Ditto. Finally...

> There were two stumbling blocks to compilation.  The source tried to
> pull in the non-existant <sys/param.h>; I merely #if'ed that away.  It
> also tried to use <sys/times.h> and deal with process times; I hacked
> that till it compiled, but I my perl.exe won't gracefully complain about
> the "times" command--it will just hang up the processor.

I hacked a litte further and got perl to decline to accept times().
Really needs a call to 'fatal', but I haven't done that yet.

Tracking down the tests that fail (ignoring the unfixable unixisms like
umask and times()) I have the following tests failing. Anyone else
worked on these? I know the regexp problems have been mentioned elsewhere.

test		behaviour

inplace		doesn't back up; prints to stdout
regexp		tests 73 and 115
term		Fails to match the output of 'echo hi there'. (This
		is echo from the MKS toolkit.)
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