Re: about perl5.002

Nick Ing-Simmons (nik@tiuk.ti.com)
Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:06:58 +0100 

Jean-Dean Pan Group <jdpan@pine.iecs.fcu.edu.tw> writes:
>Hi. I install perl5.002 in my home directory !I write a perl program 
>. The first line in my program are 
>      #!/home/u2/stutest/local/bin/perl
                1         2         3
       123456789012345678901234567890123


>  then I chmod a+x the perl program 
>  .The program can not work ,and the message is no command found !!

Some version of unix (e.g. SunOS4) limit length of string 
at start of script to 32 characters - yours is 33.

E.g. if you had chosen 'loc' instead of 'local' it would have worked!

> So I use 
>      #!perl
>it can work!!
>Why?
>    Thanks!!
>
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