Sorry, thought I'd sent this, but I'm obviously either forgetful or rude :) Thanks Allan and Juande for the help, much appreciated.
On 30 Jul 2010, at 08:03, Allan Odgaard wrote:
it is also a bad idea to make commands rely on certain options being set (not portable or robust against system upgrades etc.).
If the Perl command-line options change then Perl6 is out and I'm throwing a party like it's 1999 (or whenever it was scheduled to appear)
:)
Iain