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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: DOS Perl Status
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.151657.3716@holos0.uucp>
Date: 8 Nov 90 15:16:57 GMT
Sender: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <1990Nov6.224333.17258@athena.mit.edu> lfk@athena.mit.edu writes:

>	A while ago len@holos (??) posted a note about MSDOS Perl being 
>improved and added things like MKS extensions. Has this ever been posted,
>or completed, and has MSDOS perl been upgraded to the latest patch level.

Yes, that was me, though only a human, not a computer, would equate
holos0!lbr@gatech and len@holos. :-)

My enhanced version is completed and is upgraded to patch level 37.
Larry Wall asked me to send patches relative to patch level 38; he
said that 38 was imminent, but that was 2 weeks ago.  Larry?

I have sent my patches to Tom Dinger (East.Sun.COM!tdinger) for review;
he sent me his perl work, most of which I incorporated.  I haven't
heard from him.  Tom, did my patches make it through the e-mail maze?

My plans are to upgrade to patch level 38 and send source code patches
relative to that to Larry.  I'll also post a binary version (executable
plus a few perl scripts and a some readme text), probably to
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  I'll also place the binary kit somewhere where
it can be ftp'ed.  Not everyone who would use it has the tools
to build it.

>Also, know that a database manager library based on Gdbm has been ported 
>to MSDOS, has the functionality of the database hooks in Unix versions
>of Perl made it to MSDOS?

This has been one of the real hot buttons for MSDOS perl--many folks want
to use DBM under DOS.  I may not get this into the forthcoming
release since I don't want to postpone it.  But I'd sure like to get
it in in the near future.  Where can I get this dbm code?
-- 
Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
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