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From: rwh@me.utoronto.ca (Russ Herman)
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Perl--One Man's Experience
Message-ID: <1990Apr13.222524.29111@me.toronto.edu>
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Date: 14 Apr 90 02:25:24 GMT

In article <4080017@hpausla.aso.hp.com> giles@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Giles Lean) writes:
>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.)
>unshift		

The unshift problem goes away when you turn off MSCs optimization and
stuff a

#define register

in config.h.  MSC isn't quite handling SOMETHING right.  Will try these
again when my MSC6.0 upgrade gets filled.

However, I have a lot more errors: argv.2; glob.1 [probably an DOS env
string limit though]; s.41,42; split.11; and a significant sprinkling
throughout stat.  I've been trying things re the regexp problems with no
luck. The last hint I was given (8-bit chars) sounded reasonable but
didn't help.
Russ Herman
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