Glenn Linderman wrote:
Last night I was watching my backup more closely than I usually do, and
I noticed it backing up 4 files matching the name parl*.exe from my perl
source code directory (which is my current directory when I run pp).
Upon investigation, I discovered 98 files matching that pattern, dating
from 11/9/2006, plus one dating from 7/28/2006, but the * only matched 4
characters for that older file, and it matches 7 for the newer ones. So
I ran pp again today, and now I have 100 parl*.exe files.
Looks like each run of pp leaves behind an orphan parl*.exe file.
Is this something added with the parl-regeneration-for-every-pp-call
feature?
The file from 7/28/2006 could be an outlier, if I aborted a pp call or
something.
Ouch. You are right. I have 23 of them just from today with the new
version 0.960 I installed today. I had been using an older par, from
maybe a year ago, and I see no orphaned parl*.exe files except from
today's new 0.960. All such files are in my ...\Local
Settings\par-user\cache.... directory
