On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Todd Tyrone Fries wrote:

> why does the perl package depend on csh?

Perl uses 'csh' for filename globbing (that is, for <*.*> sort of
constructs.)  Yes, that's strange behavior, and the dependency probably
will eventually be removed, but not anytime soon.

    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

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