From: Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:19:03PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> > It's a shame that even in Perl 5.8 one can't do this:
> > open (IN, '-|', 'cmd','/c','dir');
>
> Well, the feature is there in 5.8.0, it's just not portable. Of
> course, you mention the other way to implement that is with a pipe(),
> fork(), and exec() so it's just as portable as that alternative. At
> least the feature is documented to be there; I don't have an
> installation of 5.8.0 to test with.
I guess you are right. I tried it on my Win2k and got
List form of pipe open not implemented at - line 1.
so maybe it does work under unix, but not under windoze.
I did not try to implement it.
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