Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Weird directories in scripts (was Re: Setting your system time)
Message-ID: <15856@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 90 06:18:34 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.183429.17002@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1990Sep13.183429.17002@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.com writes:
>I've written the following script ...
 ...
>do "/compass/c/worley/perl-3.0/lib/getopt.pl";

>do "/compass/c/worley/perl-3.0/sys/syscall.h";

Come on people -- is it really necessary to leave this kind of line in a
Perl script being distributed to the world?  How about exercising a
little reasonability when you post, and eliminating the weird custom
directories instead of making thousands of individual users do it?
This also applies to BSD-style interpreter lines like

	#! /u9/hawhaw/garygilmore/pub/special/jetson/bin/perl

and so forth.  I don't mean to pick on Doug in particular, but this
happens a lot.  

At ease -- smoke em if you got em.  :-)

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