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From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken?
Date: 31 Jan 1997 21:10:16 GMT
Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France
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In article <5coivj$l88@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote:
>
>> 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..
>
>Huh?  /usr/bin/perl is still Perl 4.

And is it going to be changed to perl 5 anytime soon?  Perl 5 has been
out for something like 2 years now, and is just as stable as perl4 ever
was.

	Roger
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