[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: portable perl question...

[MadHat]

At 05:14 AM 6/7/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
> >Aslo, the difference in / and \.  Remember to use a \ you have to use it
> >twice \\ to make sure it is escaped (perl sees \ as an escape character
> >for what ever come next, so \n is newline and \c is control, \t is tab,
> >etc...), but don't let people lie to you, the / has worked fine on all
> >versions of Perl I have used on Win32 (being versions of ActivePerl and
> >Cygwin Perl).  Test it and find out for yourself.
> >
> >There are other differences, like some modules not being portable, but
> >there are too many details to list.  These are the 2 items I have had bite
> >me in the ass, so here they are.
>
>One more thing that has made some of my code difficult to port: windows
>Perl distros that I've seen have no support for signals...
>
>This only affects porting code to windows platforms, so it may be a
>non-issue for you. The one time I had the problem, I promptly decided to
>scrap the thought of porting it. :)

good point.  Though I think some single processing is used in the cygwin 
port...  but we are getting too far away from Linux to continue this 
discussion here.


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>Shane Allen <shane at tacni.net>
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