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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Socket stuff (MSDOS perl) ? Any plan
Keywords: msdos socket
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.152157.2880@holos0.uucp>
Date: 14 Feb 91 15:21:57 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.040356.6839@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <1991Feb12.040356.6839@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
>Any plan on adding socket stuff on MSDOS-perl ?
>With the availability of SLIP, PPP, KA9Q stuff, and packet
>drivers (source code too) ... this is a reasonable request :-)

First of all, there's no official plan on MS-DOS at all.  MS-DOS
development has been done by folks other than Larry Wall and has been
distributed by him.  I did the last round of enhancements.

The big problem with the DOS version right now is lack of memory.  Adding
features that support only a few users will use even more memory. 
I was working on a custom overlay scheme but I'm too busy right now to
do anything on it.

Sockets are at least second in priority: surely dbm is first.

Larry hasn't released my perl source code yet.  I'll e-mail the patches
to anyone who's interested in doing work on MS-DOS perl.
-- 
Len Reed
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