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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Proposed enhancements to MS-DOS perl
Message-ID: <cZVVP2w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 22 Sep 90 05:05:11 GMT
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lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) writes:

> I'm planning on make several important enhancements to the MS-DOS
> version of perl.  I'd appreciate knowing about any problems,
> ideas, or applicable code anyone may have.
[...]
> 5)   Complete MKS compatibility (see below for a plug for MKS).
>        c) Run Korn shell instead of command.com to do
>           subprocesses when a shell is needed, handling
>           metacharacter set properly.

Please make this optional, as I usually run 4dos for a command
interpreter. Perhaps an environment variable to select the shell of
choice?

Also, please consider hacking the startup code to correctly parse args
such as

perl -e 'put a script here, complete with whitespace' foo.bar

(where the single quotes would be correctly handled)

Thanks for the consideration!
--
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