[Techtalk] .sig problems

[Kai MacTane]

At 9/5/02 07:02 AM , Poppy Casper wrote:
>And the section of the script where's it's bombing:
>
>if ($opt_t || $opt_p || ($lastreadtime > $prev_lastreadtime)) {
>         open (SIGNATURE, "> $SIGFILE") or die "can't write $SIGFILE:$!";

There should not be a space after the greater-than sign. It should be:

open (SIGNATURE, ">$SIGFILE") etc.

This is, of course, assuming this is Perl, as it seems to be.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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