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From: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ridiculous Newbie Question: perl with FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Date: 21 Jul 1995 06:38:30 GMT
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Enno Vandermeer (ennov@netcom.com) wrote:
> Is there anything in particular I need to do in order to get perl working under
> FreeBSD 2.0.5?  I can't seem to get scripts to execute (I _have_ chmod'd them).

Error messages? 

perl is in the FreeBSD distribution, as /usr/bin/perl. Maybe you
need to edit the first line in your scripts
(`#!/wherever/perl/lives'), but that's just a guess.

tg