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From: "Soren Andersen" <soren DOT andersen AT mindspring DOT com>
To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:02:04 -0500
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Subject: Re: Perl ported to Cygwin bug report (-w)
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On 17 Feb 00, an entity purporting to be Charles S. Wilson [Charles S. 
Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>] wrote [regarding Re: Perl ported to 
Cygwin bug report (-w)]  

> Soren,
>   I don't know if this will fix your problem, but you need to update to
>   NT4 sp6a.
> Service Pack 6 broke any number of programs due to some weird
> networking/socket bug, but I don't remember all the details.

Huh! that's interesting!

>   Other than setting ntea (or ntsec) I don't remember why -w would fail.

I am a little unclear on this. I *wasn't setting* either of these at all before, I 
had no CYGWIN env var in my .bat file. NOW, i *am* setting ntea. Am I 
wanting to set "no ntea" instead???

> It's possible something got fixed between the perl5.005_03 and perl5.005_62
> releases for cygwin-b20, because I don't see this behavior. 

YOU'RE the fellow aren't you? This is your binary dist of Perl I am using 
right?

Hmm. Problem: I think Tk v. 8.0018 (?) -- latest release -- is broken, won't 
build on Perl 5.005_62. Therefore i won't get Tk if i go with that Perl ...

> I'd recommend
> downloading and installing the later version if you can -- it's at
> http://cygutils.netpedia.net/. OTOH, if you update to the more recent
> cygwin snapshots, then the latest precompiled perl is perl5.5.640 (aka
> perl5.6 beta0), also available at cygutils.

Thanks for the info.

> Soren Andersen wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using a Perl that's been ported to Cygwin, I am sure I remember
> > that the prebuilt Win32 (Cygwin) binary i installed was pointed-to from
> > Cygwin's site or an associated site list of port projects. sorry  don't
> > have the specific URL.
> >
> > In this Perl, the -w (writable yes|no) file test operator is broken --
> > it always returns null on any file. [As a consequence I cannot run the
> > important Perl module CPAN.pm to extend Perl conveniently). I am running
> > NT4 sp6.
> >
> > If anyone knows anything about this I'd appreciate hearing from them.
> >
> >      soren andersen




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