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Re: Perldoc error: "Could not create temp file" A. Sinan Unur 04-17-2008
Posted by A. Sinan Unur on April 17, 2008, 10:33 pm
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> Is anyone here running DJGPP and Perl 5.8.8 on Win2K? If so,
> please try this: Run Bash, then at Bash prompt type
> "perldoc perl". Do you get "invalid argument in perldoc.pm
> line 1483"? Or does it work fine?

OK, I gave in and downloaded all the files on those painfully
slow connections ;-)

bash-2.04$ perldoc -f time
time
Returns the number of non-leap seconds since whatever time the
system considers to be the epoch, suitable for feeding to
... snip. ..

c:\opt\djgpp\tmp\ReFiSi3BxU (END)

The operating system is Windows XP SP2. LFN=y set.

bash-2.04$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for dos-djgpp-stdio

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

MS-DOS port Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, Diomidis Spinellis
djgpp v2 port (jpl5003c) by Hirofumi Watanabe, 1996
djgpp v2 port (perl5004+) by Laszlo Molnar, 1997-1999

It looks like you indeed do have a configuration issue.
My original gut feeling was wrong.

Sinan
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