It irritates me, jepri, that you make a big deal of being cross platform compatible and offer alternatives for standard unix perlisms (with a few errors), and yet

• you dont offer any way to actually detect which operating system we're running on and should be friendly enough to support
• you dont cover any other operating system. its a little known fact that there are in fact more than two major operating systems out there. I'm curious to know what MacPerl does whether it converts file/path/ to file:path: or it actually needs colons.

I am actually currently involved in making cross-platform code and would be interested to know more about making things more windows and mac-friendly.

one last note:

open (FH, ">/temp/tempfile");
print FH $temporary_data;
[download]

I dont think I've ever worked on a *nix system that had a /temp directory. The Unix System Administration Handbook (3rd ed) doesnt mention it, either. You're looking for /tmp.

dep.

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