On June 8, 1998 at 15:15, Rick Ford wrote:

> I'm trying to install MHonArc on my Unix account (Digital UNIX 4.0D,
> PERL 4.0.1.8) and have run into a problem.  I used the "install.me"
> autoinstaller and had no problems there.  However, when I try to run
> mhonarc I get the following:
> 
> syntax error in file /home/omt/bin/mhonarc at line 40, next 2 tokens
> "\mhonarc:"
> syntax error in file /home/omt/bin/mhonarc at line 41, next 2 tokens
> "\mhonarc:"
> Execution of /home/omt/bin/mhonarc aborted due to compilation errors.

I guess 2.2.0 is not truly Perl 4 compatible.  First, I recommend
that use Perl 5 instead of Perl 4.  If not, try changing the
"::" that appears on the lines that are mentioned in the error
messages to "'" (ie. change each double colon to a single quote).

        --ewh

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