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From: ripley@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Bug in File test operator?
Message-ID: <RIPLEY.90Dec20062152@viking.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 20 Dec 90 05:21:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: dgg@ksr.com's message of 5 Dec 90 05:13:34 GMT
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In article <DGG.90Dec5151334@kaos.ksr.com> dgg@ksr.com (David Grubbs) writes:


	   if (-l "." || ! -d _) {		# "." is always a real directory.
	       print "Broken.\n";
	   } else {
	       print "OK.\n";
	   }

I can confirm that above lines print "Broken" on PL41 whereas I get
"OK" on PL37. We are running SunOS 4.1 here. I tried it on sun3 as
well as on sun4.

Greetings,
				RIPLEY
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