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Re: perl wants csh



>Perhaps perl should 'Recomend: csh|tcsh'? I'd hate to see a
>'Depends', if this is the only thing that doesn't work. On the other
>hand, if this breaks a lot of perl scripts, then maybe it should. In
>fact, since perl is part of the base system, maybe csh should be on
>the base too. Yech. Does perl need csh for anything else?

The correct solution is to get perl fixed; there's no reason I can see
why it should have to use csh for globbing, rather than do the job
itself.

An alternative solution would be to write a program which acts like
csh for the purposes of perl but has no additional functionality; this
would be small and therefore less awkward to fit on the base.  Then
perl could be pointed at that program instead of /bin/csh or wherever
csh lives.

-- 
Richard Kettlewell
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/                    richard@elmail.co.uk

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