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From: tkacik@rphroy.uucp (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: perl difficulties on Apollo
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Date: 24 Oct 90 14:05:09 GMT
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In article <2724E240.153@orion.oac.uci.edu>, mheffron@orion.oac.uci.edu (Matt Heffron) writes:
|> I've just installed perl V3.0 pl 37 on an Apollo DN3500 running Domain/OS (10.2)
|> and two tests fail, both with file mode related errors. Does anyone have any
|> advice/opinions/... ?

|> The first seems to be an assumption in the io.fs test:

|> The second seems to be a real bug in Domain/OS itself,
|> manifesting itself in the op.dbm test:

Compiling perl on an Apollo DN4000 running Domain/OS (10.1), I also found
these two problems.  But I also had a third.

The test op.stat fails on the first test.
After opening a file, stat returns  nlink == 0. 
I suspect this is another Apollo bug.  Anybody know for sure?
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