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authorsimonpj <unknown>1997-03-19 20:45:02 +0000
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[project @ 1997-03-19 20:44:50 by simonpj]
Still moving towards 2.02
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@@ -584,9 +584,10 @@ tell you if you are missing something.
for doing shell-scripty tasks that involve lots of text processing.
It is pretty easy to install.
-(Perl~5 is the current version; GHC might be Perl~4 friendly, we've
-run into some trouble with our scripts on \tr{alpha-dec-osf\{1,2\}}
-using Perl~4 (patchlevel 36))
+Perl~5 is the current version; GHC should be Perl~4 friendly though.
+For Win32 platforms, Perl~5 is recommended, we even strongly suggest
+you pick up our quick-and-dirty port of Perl~5, as the common
+Hip/ActiveWare port of Perl is not Cool Enough for our purposes.
Perl should be put somewhere so that it can be invoked by the \tr{#!}
script-invoking mechanism. (I believe \tr{/usr/bin/perl} is preferred;