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- From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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- Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.024704.12063@mccc.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 02:47:04 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.145234.17625@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Aug28.155801.14501@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Aug28.180137.22861@ra.msstate.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug28.180137.22861@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
- =Because perl is a scripting language. That means it wants to have a #!
- =line at the beginning with the path name to an executable.
- =
- =But scripts have a path hardwired into them almost by definition.
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- Not all shells/UNIXes respond to #! stuff, so some of us have to edit
- all distributed perl scripts! Like, if we have to do it, ...
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- ;-)
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