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From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Makewhatis Broken?
Date: 27 Jan 1997 08:30:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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I noticed today that my /usr/bin/makewhatis is broken..
Apparently it works under perl 4, but not the 5 that is part of the 
freebsd 2.1.6.1 distribution..

anyone have a fix for this?