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in reply to Re: perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print
in thread perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print

Why only on BSD and only on P5.12?

Windows...yeah...not interesting fail...missing utils, so some win-specific hack there.

but the fail on 512/Bsd and not linux and not 514 or 516 -- previous report had many more fails on other clients... that only this one is causing probs -- what is diff about this combo? That's what's stumped me...

Have no easy way to test this on a BSD5.12 system though and am not sure if a change like above wouldn't cause probs on other systems.

. As for $fh... P takes 'globs'. or IO handles. Does that answer your Q?
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If I added IO::Handle/IO::File... and if that worked, it would seem to indicated that IO::Handle doesn't have an @ISA relation with IO::Handle. How likely is that on 1 platform?