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Subject: Re: Perl-4.036?
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From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber)
Date: 13 Sep 93 01:03:43 GMT
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In article <CD9Dy6.B51@hippo.ru.ac.za>,
Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> wrote:
>FWIW, I've yet to find an off the shelf package to compile on
>FreeBSD-1.0. Not elm2.4, not screen-3.5.0, not several others. While I

I can't say I've met any system that will compile elm without
fiddling.  On the whole, *my* perception is that FreeBSD does not
require noticeably more twiddling to make things work than the
SunOS or Ultrix systems I use.

-john
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