Conserving memory - was SPUG: Fw: greetings

[Colin Meyer]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:08:48AM -0700, Matt Tucker wrote:
> -- "Tim Maher/CONSULTIX" <tim at consultix-inc.com> spake thusly:
> 
> >> or should I be using:
> >> 
> >> open(FH, "<templates/RealTop.htm");
> >> print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
> >> while ($line = <FH>) {
> >>     print "$line\n";
> 
> This should be:
> 
>      print $line;
> 
> to avoid getting doubled newlines. But then, no-one's actually going to
> write this code anyway, when a simple:
> 
>      system qw(cat templates/RealTop.htm);
> 
> will do.

Out of curiosity, does this work on Windows?  (I don't have a windows box
within convenience to test on.)

The 'perldoc -f system' page says that Perl forks before executing the 
requested command.  Does the Windows Perl's system execute the commands
without forking?

Also, is there a 'cat' on windows?

Have fun,
-C.



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