I've about reached the opinion that using Perl under Win98 is a lost cause. When I try do relatively simple tasks, my computer freezes. For example, the following script:

use strict;
my @dmap = `map`;
my $mapsize = scalar @dmap;
foreach my $line (@dmap) {
   print $line;
}

print "Number of lines in \@dmap: $mapsize\n\n";
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It gives me the this message after about 10 seconds:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be terminated. Quit all programs, and then restart your computer.

If the program consistently encounters problems, click the Start button, then select Help, Troubleshooting, and 'If you have trouble running MS-DOS programs'.

Could someone please try this under Win NT/2000 and tell me if it works or not? If a command runs at the DOS prompt, I expect it to run when shelled from Perl. Is this asking too much? BTW, I'm using Active State Perl 5.6.1 (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread). I love Perl under Unix, but under Win98 it really stinks!

@a=split??,'just lose the ego and get involved!';
for(split??,'afqtw{|~'){print $a[ord($_)-97]}