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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Subject: Re: Undefined C library functions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.005051.3569@netlabs.com>
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- References: <1992Dec26.215216.11318@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Dec27.163339.15681@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:50:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.163339.15681@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli) writes:
- : Note that you CANNOT patch with perl, since it truncates input files at
- : first binary byte of 0 (the little fix for this perl bug has also been
- : posted in a followup to my msg, if you have perl sources to patch).
-
- Well, you can, but you just have to avoid using <>, the line input
- operator. Any of getc(), read() or sysread() will work fine. But the
- <> bug is easily fixed, as Alex pointed out.
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- Larry Wall
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