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From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. E.W. Lisse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: MS-DOS actually exists (though it is not the pure art)
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Date: 9 Apr 91 18:20:01 GMT
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Hi,

someone must have implemented it on MS-DOS. (MS-DOS is that software
that keeps zillions of PC/XT/AT/Clones running for you purists out
there)

To my defense I must say that I would prefer to run Unix on my box (286)
if I could afford it (386 etc).

Now enough of the :-)-O stuff:

Can someone please indicate if a version of perl exist for ms-dos and
where (exactly) one can grab it. I have no ftp (remember this is Africa)
but can use the princeton mail-ftp server, which works very very well.
(We  use a perl script of course to facilitate the process)

If I know the host and the subdirectory and the exact name, I can grab
it myself. If however someone wishes to email me the uuEncoded
ZIP/ZOO/tar.Z/LHC/ARC of perl.EXE, I will forever be grateful.

regards, el
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Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse       (spel@hippo.ru.ac.ZA)
Katatura State Hospital     (formerly extel@quagga.ru.ac.za)
Private Bag 13215           (Real Soon Now ...  el@lisse.NA)
Windhoek, Namibia           (no FTP yet. [This is Africa :-)-O])