At 8:58 AM -0600 12/3/07, John E. Malmberg wrote: >Craig A. Berry wrote: >> >>It doesn't say what value it should have if the system doesn't support >>that construct, nor does it say exactly what "that construct" is. VMS >>supports the shebang line to the extent that it will read switches >>found there, but it will not use it to figure out which Perl to run. > >Perl 5.10 (maybe 5.8.8) on VMS will use it in the piped variant of the open >command to determine which perl to try to run. If it does not find the >requested perl, it falls back to the verb or symbol C<PERL>. It will also >work for any other scripting language that supports shebngs installed on VMS >in the same way.
I knew about startperl, which Peter mentioned, but I forgot we used sharpbang in piped opens. I guess there's no harm in adding it to configure.com, but I'll try it out first. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
