MS-DOS patches to perl.
Apply this patch to the standard perl source, version 4, patch level 19,
using "patch -p."  Do this in the root directory of the perl source
distribution.

You can cat all these patches together and pipe the output to patch -p.

Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
..!gatech!holos0!lbr
holos0!lbr@gatech.edu
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*** doio.c.old	Mon Nov 11 09:31:22 1991
--- doio.c	Thu Nov 14 08:52:16 1991
***************
*** 80,85 ****
--- 80,87 ----
  #include <sys/file.h>
  #endif
  
+ #include <math.h>
+ 
  int laststatval = -1;
  int laststype = O_STAT;
  
***************
*** 1259,1264 ****
--- 1261,1275 ----
      register char **a;
      register char *s;
      char flags[10];
+ 
+ #ifdef MSDOS
+ 	/* Close the temp files in anticipation that the exec
+ 	   will succeed.  If it fails, we're screwed.  (MS-DOS
+ 	   exec handling needs a lot of work.  The ambitious
+ 	   should refer to the way system and pipes work.
+ 	*/
+     cleanup_msdos_temps();
+ #endif
  
      /* save an extra exec if possible */