[From nobody Fri Jul 15 14:20:14 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:42:28 +0000
From: brendan@hollyking.org
To: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [Pdx-pm] Austin's $VERSION trick
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:11:46PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Anyone with a Windows machine, I'd be curious to know what it does with:
> 
> 	require "C:\foo\bar\baz.pl";

Can't locate C:♀oaaz.pl in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib
C:/Perl/site/lib .) at reqbaz.pl line 4.

That's what I get on my box at work.  Changing it to:

    require "C:/foo/bar/baz.pl";

works.

The version of Perl on this system (WinXP Pro SP2) is:

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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