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Started by Brian Thompstone
Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:52
Help - backquotes in Amiga Perl?
Author: Brian Thompstone
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:52
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:52
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I have just installed perl4.035 on my Amiga. The interpreter itself seems
to be reasonably happy, but I can't get any back-quoted commands to work
e.g. $var=`who`;
The installation instructions are very specific about providing assignments
for USR: BIN: DEV: TMP:, but not at all clear on what (if anything) I need
to move into them. It also mentions installing IXPIPE: which I think I have
done, although the documentation on this is not in fact part of the package
(the README.amiga claims it is).
Question: is the backquote capability of the interpreter entirely absent
from the Amiga port, (e.g. I know that fork() isnt supported) or
have I failed to perform some important installation step?
I would appreciate email contact with anyone who actually uses this version
of perl.
Thanks.
PS - is there a more recent port?
brian@clrlight.demon.co.uk
Is anyone (else) porting Perl 4.036 or 5.x to the Amiga? [was Re: Help - backquotes in Amiga Perl?]
Author: Tomas Charles Willis
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:32
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:32
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In article <DI2r76.A3K@dsbc.icl.co.uk>,
Brian Thompstone <sut@oasis.icl.co.uk> wrote:
>I have just installed perl4.035 on my Amiga. The interpreter itself seems
>to be reasonably happy, but I can't get any back-quoted commands to work
> e.g. $var=`who`;
This works on my personal version of 4.036.
No I am not planning on releasing it soon.
>
>PS - is there a more recent port?
>
Is anyone associated more closely with the Amiga GNU porting/gcc project
working on Perl? I just want to get latex2html to work...
I applied the patches for 4.036 to the Amiga 4.035 sources, but I havent
run the regression test or anything. Is anyone farther along?
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Ciao!
Tomas Willis (tomas@cae.wisc.edu)
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