> OSINIT.PL seems to be set up to cope only with WIN32 systems ... or
> rather, I presume it is, because it doesn't work on my
> MSDOS6.22/WfWG3.11 system.
>
> Under my system,the OS type is returned as "dos" -- which currently
> isn't recognised -- OSINIT.PL checks only for a string containing
> "win"
>
> The fix only needs a simple change to one line.
>
> Lines 65-69 of OSINIT.PL read:
>
> ------------
> } elsif (($^O !~ /cygwin/i) &&
> ($^O =~ /win/i) &&
> ($tmp = $ENV{'COMSPEC'}) &&
> ($tmp =~ /[a-zA-Z]:\\/) &&
> (-e $tmp)) {
Yes, that contains a bug.
This could have read:
} elsif (($^O !~ /cygwin/i) &&
(($^O =~ /win/i) ||
(($tmp = $ENV{'COMSPEC'}) &&
($tmp =~ /[a-zA-Z]:\\/) &&
(-e $tmp)))) {
If MHonArc requires Perl 5 now, the $^O check for DOS could replace the
check of COMSPEC's contents.
-- SP
