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  13 <big><strong><span class="block">&nbsp;ExtUtils::MM_Win95 - method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X</span></strong></big>
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  22         <li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
  23         <li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
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  27                 <li><a href="#overriden_methods">Overriden methods</a></li>
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  37 <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
  38 <p>ExtUtils::MM_Win95 - method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X</p>
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  42 <h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
  43 <pre>
  44   You should not be using this module directly.</pre>
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  48 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
  49 <p>This is a subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Win32 containing changes necessary
  50 to get MakeMaker playing nice with command.com and other Win9Xisms.</p>
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  53 <h2><a name="overriden_methods">Overriden methods</a></h2>
  54 <p>Most of these make up for limitations in the Win9x/nmake command shell.
  55 Mostly its lack of &amp;&amp;.</p>
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  57 <dt><strong><a name="item_xs_c">xs_c</a></strong>
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  59 <dd>
  60 <p>The &amp;&amp; problem.</p>
  61 </dd>
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  63 <dt><strong><a name="item_xs_cpp">xs_cpp</a></strong>
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  65 <dd>
  66 <p>The &amp;&amp; problem</p>
  67 </dd>
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  69 <dt><strong><a name="item_xs_o">xs_o</a></strong>
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  71 <dd>
  72 <p>The &amp;&amp; problem.</p>
  73 </dd>
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  75 <dt><strong><a name="item_max_exec_len">max_exec_len</a></strong>
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  77 <dd>
  78 <p>Win98 chokes on things like Encode if we set the max length to nmake's max
  79 of 2K.  So we go for a more conservative value of 1K.</p>
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  82 <dt><strong><a name="item_os_flavor">os_flavor</a></strong>
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  84 <dd>
  85 <p>Win95 and Win98 and WinME are collectively Win9x and Win32</p>
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  92 <h1><a name="author">AUTHOR</a></h1>
  93 <p>Code originally inside MM_Win32.  Original author unknown.</p>
  94 <p>Currently maintained by Michael G Schwern <code>schwern@pobox.com</code>.</p>
  95 <p>Send patches and ideas to <code>makemaker@perl.org</code>.</p>
  96 <p>See <a href="http://www.makemaker.org.">http://www.makemaker.org.</a></p>
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