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From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Note! 2 versions of Perl in Release 2.1.6-Release
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 06:37:01 GMT
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Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> wrote:

>> "/usr/bin" appears to be an older version, version 4.0 perhaps (and
>> incompatible with Majordomo).  The one in "/usr/local/bin" is version
>> 5.002 and compatible.
[snip]
>This is a useful bit of info Kinney, thanks. Being new to 
>freeBSD, this is good to know. I wonder what would break
>if I simply changed my path order to reflect /usr/local/bin
>earlier on than /usr/bin?

Why bother keeping perl 4 hanging around?  Delete it.  Give me one good reason
why it should be kept...

Sitaram.