Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Recent patches Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 23:45:37 GMT References: <1990Aug23.035932.2286@iwarp.intel.com> Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 35 merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: > I'd guess your shell is completely ignoring the single quotes, because > that's the sort of error you'd get from a real shell if you left the > single quotes off. Too bad (he mutters again). T'would seem so. I even tried using backtick (`) quoting under 4dos, and still had problems. Strangely enough, a small batch file showed that the ` quoting _does_ deliver the whole string to 4dos as a single argument. Perl, though, doesn't seem to accept it. (joining in the muttering) > Doesn't BASH work under Messy-Dos? I don't know... I've tried the script under ms_sh (recently posted to c.b.i.p), and I get the same results. Backtick quoting under ms_sh gives 2 shell errors, and Perl thinks the first file in the expanded * is a script (ignoring the command-line script altogether). If I had the sources to BASH, I might try porting to MS-DOS. I haven't seen them, though. (BASH was my shell of choice when I was news admin on a 386/ix box) > (I don't touch anything that has a > braindamaged 4004-upward-compatible segmented chip in it, so I > couldn't tell you.) And if I had something superior to it, I'd certainly be running it... unfortunately, I'm stuck in DOS 'till I can finagle something else. Anybody got a spare Sun? :-) Thanks for the hints, Randal. -- Roy M. Silvernail | #include | Does virtual now available at: | main(){ | reality need cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu | float x=1; | swap space? (cyberspace... be here!)| printf("Just my $%.2f.\n",x/50);} | -- me