Meta comment: should replies here go to the list by default? I keep
replying only to the author by accident, when I meant to reply only to
the list. This has probably been discussed before... Anyway:
Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Tim Bishop wrote:
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> >
> > Hi-
> >
> > We used Martin Vorlaender's Crypt::UnixCrypt module for the same reason
> > you need it - no crypt() on Windows.
>
> Nonesense. Read README.win32 before building your perl.
Whether it's true or not, if you're going to use crypt() in an
application that you want to have some prayer of being easily
cross-platform, Crypt::UnixCrypt is the way to go. I had trouble moving
my stuff from redhat linux to slackware and FreeBSD, because it's
possible to set up the systems without crypt() (or with a crypt() that
doesn't behave even similarly to the RH linux version, in the case of
BSD). Basically, it's usually pretty important that crypt() work
predictably in your application, if you're going to use it, and at least
a perl-only implementation is predicatable across platforms.
--R
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