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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Subject: Re: Perl-4.036? In-Reply-To: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 8 Sep 1993 16: 04:11 GMT Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Sep8101427@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 17:14:27 GMT Lines: 17 In article <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: > In article <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, > Alex Tang <altitude@recycle.snre.umich.edu> wrote: > >Hi. Has anybody ported perl-4.036 ( or at least gotten the thing to build?) > >for Net/386/FreeBSD? > Works like a champ under FreeBSD, has for a LONG time. As a matter of > fact, my upgrade tools use a dumped perl script to convert the passwd > file to the new crypt function or DES crypt from the old plain-text > crypt. There you go. Since NetBSD will run FreeBSD executables, that means that it will work under NetBSD as well. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca