john@jclyde.cactus.org (John B. Meaders Jr.) (10/26/88)
Larry, hurry up and post those patches so that those of us saddled with 286 machines can run perl. :-) -- John B. Meaders, Jr. 1114 Camino La Costa #3083, Austin, TX 78752 ATT: Voice: +1 (512) 451-5038 Data: +1 (512) 371-0550 UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!bigtex!jclyde!john or john@jclyde.cactus.org
jantypas@ucrmath.UUCP (John Antypas) (10/28/88)
In article <1502@jclyde.cactus.org> john@jclyde.cactus.org (John B. Meaders Jr.) writes: >286 machines can run perl. :-) >-- >John B. Meaders, Jr. 1114 Camino La Costa #3083, Austin, TX 78752 I agree! Perl is a nice replacement for awk, and on many 286 machines, awk is compiled in the small model making it all but useless, but perl often works no better if it even compiles. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!