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From: stu@gtisqr.uucp (Stu Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Proposed enhancements to MS-DOS perl
Summary: wish list for MS-DOS version.
Keywords: perl
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.150103.29089@gtisqr.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:01:03 GMT
References: <1990Sep20.013320.9162@holos0.uucp>
Organization: Global Tech International Inc.
Lines: 17

In article <1990Sep20.013320.9162@holos0.uucp> lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) writes:
>I'm planning on make several important enhancements to the MS-DOS
>version of perl.  I'd appreciate knowing about any problems,
>ideas, or applicable code anyone may have.

>4)   Swapping while running a subprocess.  Since 640K isn't much
>     when you're running perl, it would be nice to have perl swap
>     itself out when doing subprocesses.  Fortunately, I have
>     already modified one program to do this, so it'll just mean
>     hooking perl to run that code.

I've run out of memory with perl under DOS, and would like to see
it capable of using extended memory.  (What about overlay's :-)).

Also, as for another freaping creature, I'd like to see access to
the associative array binding to files.  There are several PD versions
of B-tree type file access routines that would be better than nothing.