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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Perl-4.036?
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References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 17:17:03 GMT
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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
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