crypt() question

[Mike Starke]

/_
/_Just for future reference, I would really appreciate it if you told us 
/_what was happening.  You got me psyched up about a problem (big-endian 
/_vs. little-endian, different salt accidentally used, etc.), but there 
/_is no conclusion. ;-)

Sorry. I read the salt as "aa" rather than "$aa". A grep for "$aa"
yielded the correct salt to use. 

What was someone thinking when assigning a variable as "$aa" ?

v/r
-Mike