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Re: Old GNU utilities
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Old GNU utilities
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Chris Faylor)
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:28:29 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <Pine.BSI.3.96.970618230942.8641A-100000@fish.hooked.net>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <Pine.BSI.3.96.970618230942.8641A-100000@fish.hooked.net>,
Hmmmz <garbanzo@hooked.net> wrote:
>Well in my search for perl 5.004 (perl.com's web site seems to be down) I
>discovered that there are new versions of the following utilities, that
>may be worth including in the next release of gnu-win32, however
>I do not know what bugs may have been fixed or introduced in these new
>versions or what changes were made to make them work with gnu-win32:
I have some patches for perl5.004_01 on my web site:
http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf
I've had one person tell me that he had successfully used the patches to
build perl.
>patch 2.3
This builds without modification but, beware! It works differently than
patch 2.0 in a number of cases. Diff files that work fine with older
versions of patch fail with this version.
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VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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