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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: perl remorse
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From: tom@peeper.my.domain (Tom Jackson)
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Since we seem relegated to two perl versions for some time now, does
anyone have a nifty way to default to version 5 that will survive
a make world and scripts still have #!/usr/bin/perl. I have played
with linking, but this is not elegant by any stretch.

tia

Tom