On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 12:30:54PM +0000, Steve Ellacott wrote:
> The port of Perl 5 on the current Acorn User CD is my ancient 1996 one. It is
> actually older than the version on the AU 200 CD :-(. This is in spite of my
> warning AU about this when they contacted me for permission to use my stuff.
Would they have paid attention if you'd said that they don't have permission
to use the perl port because there's a newer one here...?
[Not implying that you did anything wrong. I've heard bad stories about
AU before. IIRC it was AU who had their incoming ftp directory world
readable. Whoever it was I got a sneak preview by downloading stuff that was
being submitted]
> (Unfortunately they did not say *exactly* what they wanted: I thought it
> might be gdbm or my Bibtech to Citation script.)
>
> Do not use this old version. If anyone emails me about it, I will pass on
> details of the latest version. Would Nick or someone confirm where (and
> which) the latest version is?
certainly in the directory http://www.flirble.org/~nick/P/
I spent most of Sunday attacking IO::Seekable in the core, so didn't
actually get any further with sfio on RISC OS (it all compiles. just
doesn't pass all its tests, and I want to know why for each)
Nicholas Clark
