From:	"AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Interpreter for Perl, etc...
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> > DJGPP comes with a port of Perl, although I remember reading something (and
> > correct me if I'm wrong) about it being a bugger to use with a server
because
> > of the way it writes text to the console.
>
> The solution to this is to wrap Perl with a batch file.  Then
> redirection works as you'd expect.

Or you could use redir, correct?  I only half-remember reading about it.  It
writes all its output to stderr (like most gnu programs), but servers expect
the text to be written to stdout.  Am I remembering correctly?

AndrewJ

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