From:	Chaimf AT cris DOT com
Subject:	Re: Another success report for cygwin32/perl5.003_17
28 Dec 1996 16:39:14 -0800 :
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Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> You should have a mostly functional perl (see description of test
> failures below).  There does exist a serious problem with the -i
> command-line flag (inplace editing of files).  This seems to wipe out
> the file, so DO NOT do that.  Most other failures are due to
> UNIXisms/bugs in stat().

Great.

The -I bug, I remember as being active under the DOS versions of perl4.
I vaguely recall there was a patch (by Lloyd Zussman?) issued. 

<chaim>
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