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From: "Robbie Hatley" <see DOT my DOT signature AT for DOT my DOT email DOT address>
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Subject: Re: Perldoc error: "Could not create temp file"
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:35:22 -0700
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Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

> (reports of successes and failures on MSDOS, Win98,
> and WinXP)

Thanks for the information, but I don't use those OSs.
All the computers I use both at home and at work run
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.  (IMO, the only
"good" OS Microsoft ever made.)

Djgpp works fine for me on Win2K machines, with the
exception of the documentation for Perl 5.8.8, all of
which (perldoc, info, man) is broken and useless.
(Perldoc.pm crashes w complaints of not being able to
write temporary files; and the man pages cause ntvdm.exe
to crash w "illegal memory access" if you try to read
them.  As for the info pages, there aren't any.)

I don't know if this is true on all Win2K machines,
but it's true on the 2 machines I've tried so far.
Unknown if it's fixable at this point; I'm still
struggling with it.

-- 
Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
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