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From: cuccia@remarque.berkeley.edu (Nick Cuccia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Perl-4.036?
Date: 10 Sep 1993 02:27:10 GMT
Organization: Bump City Brewery and Barbecue, Berkeley, CA
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References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>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.
And while I had problems with getting perl-4.036 to work with pre-0.9 NetBSD,
I had no problems, other than the db test failures, getting it to work with
NetBSD 0.9.
--Nick
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