>>If you don't convert the *script* (as opposed to print statements within
>>the script), apache probably can't even start the script because the
>>linux kernel will try to invoke "/usr/bin/perl\r" which doesn't exist.
>
> BTW: I've always wondered... how 'bout HERE docs? Are they portable
> across platforms or is the line ending deemed to be that of the
> script.

To my surprise they are portable at least between Unix and Windows. Perl
seems to automatically detect the line endings and convert them to
\x{0A} at compile time. A string written as a here document always
contains simple "\n" characters as line endings regardless of whether
the source file contained CRLFs or LF and whether it's executed on
Windows or Unix.