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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Running Perl on DOS
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Date: 27 Mar 91 20:10:44 GMT
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What versions of DOS are supported?  How much memory does a Perl job
take?  Is there any way to reduce this by stripping out unused parts
of Perl and putting it in an .EXE file?

How does Perl compare to a C program when running (a lot more memory
used, yes?)

We need to ZIP out of an R:BASE subprocess, but programming this
"parser" in Perl would be *much* easier than in C from the ground up.

I hope we can use Perl.

jas
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