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From: markb@agora.uucp (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Progress on MS-DOS Enhancements
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.213556.1804@agora.uucp>
Date: 30 Sep 90 21:35:56 GMT
References: <1990Sep30.021358.17543@holos0.uucp>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <1990Sep30.021358.17543@holos0.uucp> lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) writes:
>using the -P switch; ideally this should work with at least Turbo
>and Microsoft.

I worked on this for a while and finaly gave up.  Two major reasons:  There is
no way to invoke that Microsoft preprocessor in such a way that it read its
input for the standard input.  I eventually bit the bullet and used a temp file.The second insurmountable problem is the the Microsoft perprocessor assumes that
its input can be tokenized as a legal C program.  It goes absolutely crazy over
perl code complaining about back-ticks, @ signs and other Non-C syntax.

--
Perl's maternal uncle
Mark Biggar