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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.17.190.11!news.diac.com!news From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Note! 2 versions of Perl in Release 2.1.6-Release Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 06:37:01 GMT Organization: none Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33040791.178910154@news.diac.com> References: <5doo2u$b64@lester.appstate.edu> <33019138.710D@visigenic.com> Reply-To: sitaram@diac.com NNTP-Posting-Host: p231.ts1.diac.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35429 Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> wrote: >> "/usr/bin" appears to be an older version, version 4.0 perhaps (and >> incompatible with Majordomo). The one in "/usr/local/bin" is version >> 5.002 and compatible. [snip] >This is a useful bit of info Kinney, thanks. Being new to >freeBSD, this is good to know. I wonder what would break >if I simply changed my path order to reflect /usr/local/bin >earlier on than /usr/bin? Why bother keeping perl 4 hanging around? Delete it. Give me one good reason why it should be kept... Sitaram.