in reply to Backticks and Win98

I don't know if I'm just phenomenally lucky, or what, but I have Norton AntiVirus 2001, Win98, and ActiveState Perl (build 620 - I should upgrade). As I mentioned in a reply to Perl on Win98 vs. Win/NT/2000?, I'm having no difficulties. Are you sure that it's NAV that's causing the conflict?

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Re: (Ovid) Re: Backticks and Win98
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 10, 2001 at 20:01 UTC

    Yes, it is repeatable. Test script: 

    print `dir`;

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    NAV on => crash with BSOD

    NAV off (autoprotect) => runs as expected.

    NAV2000 also conficts with perl2exe, perl makefile.PL and the Dynamic State port of sendmail. If it is on all these apps go BSOD

    cheers

    tachyon

    s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

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      I don't see what the problem is. On Microsoft platforms, Perl is a virus and so the anti-virus system is just doing its job.

              - tye (no, I'm chewing tobacco; that isn't my tongue in my cheek)
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Re: (Ovid) Re: Backticks and Win98
by jlongino (Parson) on Sep 11, 2001 at 07:10 UTC
    I've tested turning it on/off repeatedly with no discrepancy in results. If only I had a nickel for each reboot. Info: 
    This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Binary build 628 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. 
Built 15:41:05 Jul  4 2001

Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition 4.10.2222 A, with all patches/upda
+tes

Norton Antivirus 2000, with all patches/updates.

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    Although I haven't confirmed it (using the on/off test), I am willing to bet that running nmake with NAV active (using my application software mix) would behave the same way. It rebooted my computer every time I executed it. I gave up on it a month ago and got rid of it.

    Update: Confirmed. "map" works (simple form) with NAV 2000 disabled. Tested on/off several times. See Re: Re: Perl on Win98 vs. Win/NT/2000? for details.

    Perhaps there is something magical about build AS/620 and/or NAV 2001. 

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