Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 11:00:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Christopher W Gray <gvaofg AT juno DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Perl interpreter cannot find 'POSIX'
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Christopher W Gray wrote:

> I just installed the GNU distribution for Windows 95.    I have a short
> perl program which runs okay on Unix (SGI).   The program has the
> statement:
> 
>        require 'POSIX';

Didn't you mean to say "use POSIX;" instead?

> I am issuing the command-line:
> 
>        perl "c:\My Documents\perl_stuff\abc.pl
> 
> The perl interpreter complains with the message:
> 
>        Can't locate POSIX in @inc (@inc contains: c:/fsf/lib/perl5
> c:/fsf/lib/perl5/site cL/fsf/lib/perl5/site .) at c:\My
> Documents\perl_stuff\abc.perl line 2.
> 
> 
> The distribution CD did not install the POSIX extensions to Perl.   I
> have no idea what to do to get this to install.

If "use POSIX" doesn't help, I suggest to post this question to some
Perl-related forum.  I don't think it's a bug in the Perl installation
provided by the CD, but if it turns out it is CD's fault, please come
back here and tell the details so we could correct that in future
releases.

Thanks.