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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Utils collection?
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Date: 14 Oct 90 23:51:55 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <9H12q2w163w@cybrspc> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
: I was just wondering if there is a collection somewhere of Perl versions
: of the popular utils, like tail, head, cut, etc. (I already recreated
: tail for a recent project) Will this stuff be in "the Book"?

I've seen versions of some of these, but I don't know of a place that keeps
them.  I'll be starting a collection here, but it'll take a while to set up.

For the most part, we've avoided cloning Unix utilities in the Book.  Not
because we thought it wouldn't be useful, but there was so much good new
stuff...  I think an inetd snuck in somewhere, though, and of course there
are several grep variants.

: Also, any idea on when V4 will appear? What group will it be posted in?

The patches leading up to V4 will appear shortly.  V4 isn't revolutionary--it's
just what the Book documents.  The patches will appear as 3.0 patches, and
when everyone has had their say, I'll call it 4.0 and send it off to one of
the sources groups--probably comp.misc.sources, since Perl is no longer just
a Unix thingie.

Larry