On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jim Winstead wrote: > this is very similar to something that was part of randy's > win32 patch that i was going to do some more digging on before > applying. i'll try testing with 5.6 later today. if someone could > give it a whirl with 5.005, that would be cool.
what they have in common is trying to get rid stdio FILE* usage. it is gone with this patch other than the call to PerlIO_importFILE() which converts a stdio FILE* to a PerlIO*. i've talked with the implementor (nick ing-simmons) of the PerlIO system, and this seems to be the right way for PerlIO* and stdio FILE* to get along in this case. the question is, will it compile/run with 5.6.0, 5.005, etc.
