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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: right version? (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))
Message-ID: <5263@omepd.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 89 01:50:18 GMT
References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> <222@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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In-reply-to: mr@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)

In article <222@cica.cica.indiana.edu>, mr@cica (Michael Regoli) writes:
| interesting, this perl code dies here with:
| 
| Script started on Tue Nov 21 13:08:07 1989
| [1] [cica:/u.cica/mr] sh uutraf.pl
| syntax error in file ./uutraf.pl at line 19, next token "%"
| Execution aborted due to compilation errors.
| 
| now that's portable!  :-)
| 
| line 19 of uutraf.pl is:
| 
| %hosts = ();		# hosts seen


One wild guess.  Say "perl -v", and if it says something less than
Perl v3.0 alpha, you're not keeping up with the times.  (Actually,
anything less than perl 3.0 patchlevel 6 is a bit behind! :-)

Just another Perl hacker,
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