Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970613131904.44e736c8@pop.verisim.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 13:19:04 -0400 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Takashi Toyooka Subject: Perl port for OpenDOS? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk Anyone know of a nice port of perl 5 to DOS? Specifically, OpenDOS? There's an alpha version sitting on CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), which I haven't tried, because it's very large to download. Anyone used it on OpenDOS? If I know it works well, it would be worth downloading. I *have* tried a djgpp alpha version from DJ's site (ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/p5003a1b.zip), and another one I know only as "bigperl," which was grabbed off of CPAN, but I've had problems with both under OpenDOS (they both like MS-DOS just fine, argh!). The djgpp version seems to have DPMI-related problems when calling system(). Actually, it has problems when I mix it with shelling out in general. Also, if I run Task Switcher, it doesn't run at all. It just exits with no error message, no nothing, except an error status of -1. bigperl doesn't want to start up no matter what I do. Again, it seems to be DPMI-related problems. Now, bigperl uses DOS4GW; would that cause conflicts? I don't know how DOS extenders work. I've tried running CWSDPMI beforehand to make sure that it's there, but no success. I haven't tried using OpenDOS's own DPMI server, because even if it works, I'm loathe to use it because it would mean that I can't use any of the djgpp utils. Still, I should give it a shot, I suppose. If it works, I'll report it here. Anyone have any help for me? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Takashi Toyooka Verisim, Inc. http://www.magi.com/~ttoyooka/ http://www.verisim.com/