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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!pagesat!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Perl-4.036? Date: 8 Sep 1993 16:04:11 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu 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) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)