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From: jmc@teqsoft.UUCP (Jack Cloninger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Utils collection?
Message-ID: <30@teqsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 90 17:50:37 GMT
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lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

>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"?
                                                     ^^^^^^^^
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>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
           ^^^^^^^^
Could you post (or email) information about this Book?  Is it a published
book or something available from the net?  I am beginning to really love
Perl and I know that others on other net nodes are also curious about any
more info that might be available about it.  Thanks, and thanks for
writing Perl!

Jack
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