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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Problems using i2ps
Message-ID: <10155@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 29 Oct 90 20:59:07 GMT
References: <43162@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <43162@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) writes:
: Hello,
: 
: I'm trying to get the i2ps perl script to work, but am getting the
: following error:
: 
: syntax error in file i2ps at line 47, next 2 tokens "(__FILE__"
: Execution aborted due to compilation errors.
: 
: I don't yet know perl, so this error means nothing to me.  Any help is
: appreciated.
: 
: I don't have the author's address, so I posted here.  As you can see,
: followup-to is set to the perl group.

You've got an older version of Perl.  __FILE__ was added in patch 19.
We're currently at patchlevel 37, soon to be 38.

Larry