Why Perl here ?

Chris Woods ()
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:57:35 -0500 (EST)

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writes:
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> A naive question:
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> Why the !@#$%^ does the 'vncserver' script use Perl ???

One reason, I would suspect, is that perl is more readily available on
non-unix platforms than is any unix-style shell.

I could be wrong, of course. Does the vncserver on win32 use perl?

/cjw

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