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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl 3.0 pl12 missing functions
Keywords: splice, require, sysread
Message-ID: <125604@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 15 Mar 91 05:48:01 GMT
References: <23618@well.sf.ca.us>
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In article <23618@well.sf.ca.us> gregs@well.sf.ca.us (Greg Strockbine) writes:
>
> I copied L.Yaffe's dcmp program the other day and when I tried to
>run it perl hung on the 'require' statement. To get by this I inserted
>the library right into the source.  Then it hung on splice and sysread.
>Are these missing form 3.0 patch level 12?  I got this version off the
>GNU tape just before Christmas.

Perl is up to patch level 44, and a 4.0 beta is out. Get either.
The version you have is too old to use.
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