On 5 Oct 1999, Chip Turner wrote:
> Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > great ideas... I'm reading that man page now... It does match the symptom,
> > but it's gotta be corruption or an external module that we didn't write,
> > since I'd never heard of that variable... And this code is fairly
> > simple...
>
> Did you try adding the "local $\ = undef" before the offending lines
> to eliminate the possibility? The symptoms are very much like what a
> bad $\ would produce. Are you running any Apache::Registry scripts or
> whatnot? You never know what might be running; it's worth a shot just
> to eliminate the possibility.
That does seem to be the problem... Thanks Chip!!
I really haven't the faintest clue where that is getting set... This is an
internal use only machine and only runs about 30 different
scripts, _all_ of which were written here (mostly be me)... it
pretty much has to be in an included module :-(
-Tom
