On Tuesday 20 February 2001 14:45, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
whispered
> :
> | Yep; the perl manpage has said, since time immemorial, that
> | the fact that -w was not on by default is a BUG.
>
> I don't know that I would say time immemorial. It wasn't in the man for
> 4.036. I can only find man pages back to 5.002 right now, so I can't
> check any earlier than that in the 5 tree. However, it was meant to be
> (more than) slightly tongue-in-cheek.
And there's a difference between warnings originating because something has
gone wrong and those originating because I'm doing something particularly
perlish. Unfortunately, -w doesn't (and probably can't) tell the
difference.
<sidetrack>
A friend of mine was attempting to install some commercial program (a D&D
character generator, IIRC) on a Windows box - one that didn't have a sound
card. It wouldn't run. It always crashed while trying to talk to the
sound card. He procured someone else's laptop to do a demo install, and it
ran fine - there are open and close window sound effects, and this
voice-over guy that gives instructions. The first instruction given in the
setup box? If you'd like to turn off the voice, click this box. Nothing
else is sound dependent. Somehow I think there's a lesson to be learned
here.
</sidetrack>
--
Bryan C. Warnock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
