[PLUG] Re: Perl interpreter hangs

[Kevin Falcone <kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu>]

>>>>> "en" == ed nestor <ejn88@voicenet.com> writes:

  en> Recently I started my Perl interpreter only to find it just
  en> hangs there and no prompt appears.  It has been working fine for
  en> two years and all of a sudden this happens.  

Um, what do you mean by "just hangs"

If you just type perl at a command prompt it will sit there waiting
for input in the form of a perl program.

Try something like perl -v or perl -le 'print "Hello"' to see if it is
working at all.

-kevin

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