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| author | Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> | 1993-10-07 23:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> | 1993-10-07 23:00:00 +0000 |
| commit | 79072805bf63abe5b5978b5928ab00d360ea3e7f (patch) | |
| tree | 96688fcd69f9c8d2110e93c350b4d0025eaf240d /README | |
| parent | e334a159a5616cab575044bafaf68f75b7bb3a16 (diff) | |
| download | perl-79072805bf63abe5b5978b5928ab00d360ea3e7f.tar.gz | |
perl 5.0 alpha 2perl-5a2
[editor's note: from history.perl.org. The sparc executables
originally included in the distribution are not in this commit.]
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ +[This is an unsupported, pre-release version of Perl 5.0. It is expected +to work only on a Sparc architecture machine. No Configure support is +provided. In fact, if you succeed in configuring and making a new +makefile, you'll probably overwrite the only makefile that works. Note +that a Sparc executable comes with the kit, so you may not need to +compile at all. There is no list of new features yet, but if you look +at t/op/ref.t you'll see some of them in use. perl -Dxst is also fun.] - Perl Kit, Version 4.0 + Perl Kit, Version 5.0 - Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991, Larry Wall - All rights reserved. + Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991,1992,1993, Larry Wall + All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: @@ -49,12 +56,11 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and shell. -See the manual page for more hype. There's also a Nutshell Handbook published -by O'Reilly & Assoc. Their U.S. number is 1-800-338-6887 (dev-nuts) and -their international number is 1-707-829-0515. E-mail to nuts@ora.com. - -Perl will probably not run on machines with a small address space. +Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk +and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There's also a Nutshell +Handbook published by O'Reilly & Assoc. Their U.S. number is +1-800-998-9938 and their international number is 1-707-829-0515. +E-mail to nuts@ora.com. Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and then follow them carefully. |