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RE: Distributed Perl 5.6.1 bug report.



Robert Collins wrote:
>Oh, new thought - what does ActiveState perl do in the same
>circumstance? (-i , no extension)

I haven't tried it (yet), but based on my reading of the
code, you'll get this error "Can't do inplace edit
without backup".

>reagarding the cygwin error - is there some reason you
>can't assume a .orig extension for the cygwin platform?
>Or even use a temp backup extension and then unlink the
>backup file when finished?
>
>I'm just thinking along maximum transparency for all
>the unix scripts out there.

I agree, I'll see what's possible when I'm working up
a patch.

Regards,

Eric Fifer



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