Could you post your test script?
I've tried a couple of variants of this, and can't seem to emulate your problem. (i.e. it usually works). One thing -- don't try 
#!~/bin/perl

# This won't work (at least not portably) because of the ~ on the
#shebang line...  use #!/my/home/directory/bin/perl instead

print "Your perl code here...\n"

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As the tilde-expansion is something done by a shell, not by the OS (and what happens when a different user runs the script...?).
I doubt you are doing this (as you would probably get a "no such file or directory" error instead of the behavior you are seeing), but it is a warning to any other readers, too...

--JAS

In reply to Re: More multiplatform perl by jsegal
in thread More multiplatform perl by the pusher robot

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