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Re: [PATCH] Add open "|-" and open "-|" to perlopentut

From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
September 23, 2008 09:01
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Add open "|-" and open "-|" to perlopentut
Message ID:
200809231900.41474.shlomif@iglu.org.il
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > It's been nearly a month since there was activity on this patch. Should I
> > modify it further, or can it be applied as is?
>
> I think it would be good to mention that the *list* form of piped open
> is not supported on Windows (nor on MacOS or RiscOS, but those are
> quite less common).
>

You are right. I've added it to the attached version of the patch.

BTW, can anyone tell me why open FH, '|-', @list, and open FH, '-|', @list are 
not supported on Windows?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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