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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
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Subject: Re: simple tarfilter in perl (WAS Re: mtf, part 1 of 2)
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.134708.24086@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 13:47:08 GMT
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In <1991Jan23.175822.24238@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:

>Actually, there's no reason it shouldn't have been written as a complete
>tar replacement program, it wouldn't have been much bigger.   Has anyone
>thought of re-implementing most of /bin in perl ?  It would make for
>a much smaller system distribution kit :-)

Hmmm.. perhaps the kernel should have the perl interpreter built-in?

da de daaaa! Perlix!

heh heh aem
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