at work I've found similar problems. The big boss wanted a (somewhat) simple utility to work with text files, so I made up a perl script to do it. I wanted to avoid the whole issue about explaining how to run a script through the interpreter, so I just used perl2exe - which as far as I can tell, just drags the perl interpreter around with it (more or less). The problem is that I THOUROUGLY test my programs on my computer (and a couple others nearby) with no problems, but when someone else uses the programs on different machines, the computer freezes. Other than the fact that it makes me look like I don't know what I'm doing (programming wise) I find it very fustrating. And from what I can tell, it's all pointing to use of backticks. Guess the moral of the story is, never trust backticks on windows.

Anyone know if Shell works any better?

In reply to Re: Perl on Win98 vs. Win/NT/2000? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl on Win98 vs. Win/NT/2000? by jlongino

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