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From: krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu (Kinney Baughman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Note! 2 versions of Perl in Release 2.1.6-Release
Date: 11 Feb 1997 03:12:30 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University
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Instead of being an asker of questions, perhaps I can finally contribute 
to this newsgroup:

I Installed Release 2.1.6-Release about 2 weeks ago, my first FreeBSD 
system after 3 years on Linux.

After experiencing mucho difficulties getting Majordomo to install, I
discovered there are two versions of Perl in this release.  The one in
"/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. 

I didn't discover it until I issued a "which" command from both the "sh" 
and "tcsh" and noticed the path differences.

If you're having problems getting some of your perl based programs to 
run, this might be the reason why.  It was definitely the reason 
Majordomo wouldn't run on my system.

Cheers!

Kinney Baughman