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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: perl??
- Message-ID: <9212221909.AA02432@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:33:48 GMT
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- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- Perl is available from MWC. It is on the GNU TOOLS kit along with 50
- or so tools.
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- mwc tech support
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- >
- > (I hope this didn't go out twice!)
- >
- > vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
- > >has anyone out there got perl working on coherent yet?
- >
- > I have a version (4.035 I think) running. It currently fails 6 of
- > the tests. I've examined two of the failures so far and they are
- > not to important and may be fixable, I'll be looking at the other
- > four this weekend.
- >
- > The fact that I could get Coherent's 'sh' to run the Configure
- > script says a lot about the shell's reliability and compatability!
- > I'm impressed. (Minix's sh wouldn't do it)
- >
- > I am using it for other things and it's not done anything nasty so I
- > suspect the other four problems are also not too important.
- >
- > If I get these fixed I'll say so here and see if I can find the
- > original source to produce diffs. (I wish my floppy drives would
- > work under Coherent!)
- >
- > --
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- >
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