330574 - documentation for perl.exe -T shouldn't use fancy html "-" character

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 962569

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

This is copied from IRC.

i've added the registry key that's required for cgi scripts to run properly, and i've setup my httpd.conf file correctly. cgi's aren't working at all, and my apache error log states: 
[Wed Mar 15 11:25:44 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: index.cgi
[Wed Mar 15 11:25:44 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Can't open perl script "\x96T": No such file or directory\r

any ideas? :) actually, it looks like perl.exe isn't being passed the filename. hehe :). Can't open perl script ".T": No such file or directory. that's a "-". hmmm. * double checks.

it turns out it was a copy/paste of html chars that caused it. the registry entry that i added had a html char in it and i didnt see it. instead of "-T", it had the html "-" -- which is a char code :p. bit of a nuisance actually - seeing as it came from the bugzilla site.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

In the new reST world, this is a dupe of bug 962569.

Gerv