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From: Ken Tindle <ktindle@uky.edu>
Date: 02 Aug 2003 00:56:11 -0400
Subject: PPR: PPOP.pm can't talk to ppop

David,

I'm sorry to have to bother you again, but I'm really stumped
this time, and have become rather dependent on PPR's Web
interface.  I'm getting some heat to get it working again,
after my upgrade to 1.51 that broke it.

I've learned quite a bit, but I'm at a dead end now.

I uncommented the debug 'print "Launching..."' statement, and
it had the correct output.  The $pid variable was given a
reasonable value by open2().  However, the $junk variable
is empty (length zero) after the 'my $junk = <$rdr>;'
statement.  So the regular expression is NOT an issue.

I have ruled out a pathing problem, and this problem persists
after setting all rights to the 'other' or 'world' permission
bits, too.

ppop seems to launch, but the initial "*READY" string does NOT
wind up in $junk.  Frankly, I don't know why.