From: Chaimf@cris.com Subject: Re: Another success report for cygwin32/perl5.003_17 28 Dec 1996 16:39:14 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <9612290005.AA27676.cygnus.gnu-win32@voyager.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: gsar@engin.umich.edu (Gurusamy Sarathy) Original-Cc: Perl-Win32-Porters@activeware.com, perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com, gsar@engin.umich.edu In-Reply-To: <199612280815.DAA08182@aatma.engin.umich.edu> from "Gurusamy Sarathy" at Dec 28, 96 03:15:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > You should have a mostly functional perl (see description of test > failures below). There does exist a serious problem with the -i > command-line flag (inplace editing of files). This seems to wipe out > the file, so DO NOT do that. Most other failures are due to > UNIXisms/bugs in stat(). Great. The -I bug, I remember as being active under the DOS versions of perl4. I vaguely recall there was a patch (by Lloyd Zussman?) issued. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".