RE: progress report on piping on VMS

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:40 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Charles Lane wrote:
>But all the same, having the ability to turn on and off the messages
>with a pragma in Perl seems useful to me, whichever way one selects
>the default.  But then we have the issue of "what do you call the pragma"
>as well as "should the pragma be on/off by default"?

On by default, I think.

>     3.  use vmsish 'messages'       ON by default (violating Dan's rule)

Not my rule. This is one of Larry's.

                                        Dan

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