[l2h] Re: Latex2html Win98 problem

[Ross Moore]

> Why do you need the spaces?  Won't
> 
>     system("$cmd>$tmp");
> 
> work?

Perhaps. 
Anyway, it seems like the problem was due to a bug in Perl itself
--- a specific version on a specific platform.

If someone who experienced this could write a brief report,
giving the fix (update Perl)
and any work-arounds (for those not in a position to update)
then this can be included with LaTeX2HTML documentation.

Cheers,

	Ross Moore

 
> -RAMontante
> 
> 
> Ross Moore wrote:
> 
> >James Lynch writes:
> >
> >>
> >>        I have a theory why this is happening.  In the subroutine do_cmd there is a line
> >>         
> >>        system("$cmd > $tmp");
> >>         
> >>        which would work perfectly, I suspect, on any OS besides Windows 98.  However, on ours, it doesn't work.  This is what causes the "Bad Command or Filename" error.  I was absolutely convinced of this when I wrote a short PERL script and saw that  'system("dir \b");' would result in just that error, while 'system("dir,\b");' would not.  The problem seems to be spaces between commands.  system just can't handle them for us.  But putting in commas doesn't help as this messes up function calls (and that wouldn't solve the extra space problem, though a little scripting would solve that).
> >>        
> >>
> >
> >Are you saying that what is required under Win98 is a system call:
> >
> >   system("$cmd,$tmp");
> >
> >without any spaces ?  --- and several others of the same ilk.
> >
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