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From: Guy Dawson <guy@cuillin.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Socket programming on BSD 3.0
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 07:44:43 +0100
Organization: Cuillin
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John Butterfield wrote:
> I am unable to get a basic client PERL program to work on BSD 3.0.
[...]
> This program worked fine before I upgraded to 3.0. Any thoughts??
As posted to the bsdi-users mailing list by Flavio Veloso
<flaviovs@centroin.com.br>
From page 216 of the "Installation Guide and Release Notes":
Perl programs that use socket structures need to use the
'x C n C4 x8' decoding format rather than the older form with
'S'
Guy
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