Re: Perl for RISC OS 4?

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 20:27:41 +0100, Steve Fryatt wrote:
> > Vincent mentioned rafs. Are you (Steve) using rafs?
> 
> Yes.  IIRC the scripts were loading data files or saving output to raFS.  The
> files created often had names longer than 10 chars.

In my case, when it froze the machine several times, the files didn't
have more than 10 characters. But anyway, I don't think this is
important, as the filenames are stored in the same way, whether
they have more than 10 characters or not.

> > Generally (Vincent, Steve):
> > Is there anything in common with scripts that freeze?
> > (ie do they call system(), use ``, open "|" etc to run child programs)

A script froze several times when using a ">" redirection to a raFS file
(and only that -- the script contains no system, pipes or things like
that). And I have another script that froze only once; this script froze
at a 'open "|"' and didn't use raFS at all.

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