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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: trouble setting alarm
Keywords: alarm
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.054925.3039@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Mar 91 05:49:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.172223.28322@convex.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Mar25.172223.28322@convex.com> barn@convex.com (Tim Barney) writes:
: Usually I have trouble getting up when my alarm goes off. Today, I'm
: having a lot of trouble just trying to set it! I keep getting
: 
: syntax error in file e12 at line 4, next 2 tokens "alarm  60"
: Execution aborted due to compilation errors.
: 
: Where is my mistake? It seems to me to be according to The Book.......

The Book purports to document only version 4.0.  alarm was a fairly late
addition to 3.0, so it's probably not in your installed version.

Larry