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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: C News "upact" in Perl 3.0
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Date: 20 Nov 89 17:04:47 GMT
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According to henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
>Uh, in any modern C News distribution you will find updatemin.c, which does
>the same thing in C.  It's not part of the default configuration because it
>does require the directory library.

Uh...  I knew that.   :-)

Oh well, it was still fun writing the Perl version.  And it's rather
impressive (to me, anyway) how easy it is to get reasonable speeds from
a semi-compiled language like Perl.
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