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From: raymond@bosco.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Long function names (installation)
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Date: 3 Jul 90 00:19:58 GMT
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Has anyone succeeded in bringing up perl on machines which limit
external identifiers to 8 characters?  Perl uses the names do_split
and do_splice, which both become _do_spli after truncation.

I changed do_splice to do_splce in eval.c and dolist.c, and that seemed
to work; nevertheless, I'm afraid that there might be some other collisions
that weren't caught by the regressions.

(Any chance Larry'll add this warning to the README?)

Also, is anybody working on porting perl to OS/2?  I figure I'll use
Diomidis' MS-DOS version as a base, but I'd like to know if anybody
else has tackled the task already.

$_="-|";open _||print"creaJklrnue  osrhptt,aeh ";while(<_>){$}=5;s/(.{$}})(.)/(print$2),$1/eg while--$};print;}