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To: chris@calldei.com
Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>,
	"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>,
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Subject: Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box 
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In-Reply-To: <20000616202921.D98160@holly.calldei.com> ; from Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>  "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:29:22 EST."
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:06:44 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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> On Friday, June 16, 2000, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Err.. how did you run it?  'perl < MYKERNEL'?  If you run 'perl MYKERNEL'
> > it will generate nothing because I was kinda lame and didn't know how to do
> > argument parsing. :-]
> 
>    Couldn't have hurt to ask.
> 
> while (defined($ARGV[0])) {
>         # ... parse ...
>         shift;
> }

Better:

while (<>) {
	#stuff
}

Handles both the "myprog < file" and the "myprog file1 file2 ..." cases
automagically.

M
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