From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Penalty for immature language (PERL/BASH)
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:47:33 -0500
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Daniel Barker <sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

>On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> > At the BASH prompt, I launch the following PERL script, prog.pl:
>> > 
>> > If I give this a single line consisting of the word "poo", BASH performs
>> > an illegal instruction.

FWIW, I tried your example with Bash 2.04 and it didn't crash.

Mark

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