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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Perl-4.036? Message-ID: <hastyCD79CG.LKq@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 17:17:03 GMT Lines: 24 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. > >(though perl also fail the db tests, for reasons explained in a followup >article) My girlfriend build perl for her NetBSD-0.8 system then proceeded to learn perl. Just want one catch she is not a programmer :-) Have Fun, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming