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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: MS Perl Questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.155907.15653@holos0.uucp>
Date: 11 Mar 91 15:59:07 GMT
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In article <220@munz.UUCP> nagler@olsen.ch (Rob Nagler) writes:
>
>One minor problem with DOS perl, it doesn't automatically seach the
>current directory with the -S option.  You can either put "." in your
>path.

I don't have the code in front of me here, but I suspect this is simply
because it's just executing the Unix code.  I seem to remember hooking
the system, pipe, etc., code to use Unix-stle path searching
(. only when explictly in the path) or DOS (. first come hell or high water)
based upon whether the MKS Unix-tools were running.  Obviously -S should
work the same as these, however that is, for consistency.
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Len Reed
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