hi there,

my perlscript (working on winnt) contains the following section:
for(;ReadKey(-1) ne "x";)
{
 a lot of code
}
exit;

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but now i need to run it on a sparcstation20 with solaris 7 as os. i haven't got the possibilities to build the needed term:readkey module, so i changed my code: 
for(;;)
{
 ...
}

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so, now i have to finish the script with 'ctrl+c' and not with an 'x' - but thats no prob...
after starting the script and controlling the progress via system prompts, i had to realise, that the perl runtime stops right before the infinite loop! but it doesn't quit, it just seems to wait.
is this a solaris specific issue or is this a feature/bug of the installed sieperl-distribution? and, how can i solve this? (i don't like the idea of for($i=0;$i<1000000;$i++){...})
thx

Edited: ~Tue Sep 24 18:28:44 2002 (GMT) by footpad: Removed <BR> tags from <code> blocks, per Consideration.

In reply to solaris 7 issue... by Anonymous Monk

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