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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: MS-DOS version questions
Message-ID: <PPPLP1w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 16 Sep 90 17:13:48 GMT
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Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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news@usc.edu writes:

[regarding chdir() on MS-DOS]
> Um, I don't have an msdos perl workin, but come on!!  You know that
> chdir on messydos is independent of the default drive....
> 
> try following the above line with something like
>                system("d:") || die "Couldn't switch drives: $!";

Hoo-boy! I think it's time for a chdsk() to be added to the MS-DOS
version. system() will spawn a new command processor for the job, which
will slow things down a lot. (especially if you run 4dos and your
COMSPEC=C:\4DOS.COM)
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