[mrtg] MRTG vs Windoze 95/98/ME

[Jeff Liebermann]

MRTG 2.9.4 does not work with Windoze 95/98/ME and generates a "Bad
command or filename" error message when run.  It properly generates
the HTML page, but fails to generate any graphs.

It's a Perl bug, and not with MRTG.   ActiveState's ActivePerl 5.6
Build 620 and below belches the wrong directory delimiter in the
FindBin module which returns:
	c:/mrtg-2.9.4/bin\rateup.exe
for RealBin::Bin.  This will not work with Windoze 95/98/ME (but seems
to work with NT4/Win2k).

The fix is to add 4 lines near the bottom of:
	c:\perl\lib\findbin.pm
================================================================
$RealBin = abs_path($RealBin) if($RealBin);   ## existing line
 if $(IsWin32)            ## added
 {                        ## added
  $Bin =~ s/\//\\/g;      ## added
 }                        ## added
================================================================

My thanks to Josh Wand for debugging the problem, finding the fix, and
submitting the bug report to ActiveState, and to Robert C. Dike for
reminding me why I hate programming.

Now, to update the web page...


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