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From: igp@torch.co.uk (Ian Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl: MSDOS port?
Message-ID: <580@torch.co.uk>
Date: 11 Dec 89 10:18:27 GMT
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dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West) writes:

>So is there an MSDOS port?  
>And if so, where can I get it? (ftp preferred.)

>(No MSDOS flames please - I can't afford to run a real UN*X at home.)  

I've had a go. I have a partly-working perl on msdos, compiled under
Turbo C.
So far: no support for backtick, globbing or anything else that needs
"fork", but "system" is almost working.
Few other problems, except that "eval.c" needs the full 640K & non-
interactive compiler.

>BTW, MKS large-model awk takes about 74K, and Gnu awk about 112K, on
>MSDOS.

Size: about 270K. Is it worth it?
PS - have you seen "bawk". A funny little thing, about 25K.