Re: Two queries about a DEC server

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 05/04/05

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    Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 13:56:20 -0400

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    On 4 May 2005 03:04:29 -0700, dn_perl@hotmail.com
      <dn_perl@hotmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > (Crossposting to unix.shell only because unix.misc seems to
    > be a moribund forum.)
    >
    > I am facing one serious doubt and one curiosity about a DEC
    > server; no idea whether DEC's features are causing them in any way.
    >
    > I am helping a friend over phone. His home dir is /usr/home/jeff ;
    > he logs in; runs 'cd proj' and is in /usr/home/jeff/proj. He
    > runs 'vi aa01' and from within vi he runs the command "!ls -l".
    > The command displays files in his $HOME, not in $HOME/proj.
    > Even ":e bb01" command opens the file as $HOME/bb01. On every
    > SUN box I have worked on, it woul dopen a file whose path is
    > "$HOME/jeff/bb01". How is 'vi' treating $HOME as the current dir?
    > Is it due to some artefact which ca be duplicated on a SUN box
    > as well? Just curious.
    >
    Is it possible that 'vi' is an alias to 'cd; vi' ?

    >
    > On to next topic. I have a perl script : /usr/home/jeff/aa.plscr ;
    > its first line is : "#!/usr/local/bin/perl", its mode is rwxr-xr-x,
    > but if I try to run it, I get the error : command not found.
    > "which perl" returns "/usr/local/bin/perl" as its path.
    > But though : "./aa.plscr" does not run or even if the file is
    > tried to run with its full path : "/usr/home/jeff/aa.plscr"
    > it still gives the error : 'command not found', I can run the file
    > by specifying the word 'perl' on the command line.
    > Thus : 'perl /usr/home/jeff/aa.plscr' does run.
    > I am afraid I don't have access to the DEC server myself. Is such
    > a sequence of events even possible?
    >
    Did you edit that script on a Windoze machine? Windows ends each line
    with "\r\n", so the first line of the script would look for a file
    called "/usr/local/bin/perl\r". 

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