Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!spel From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. E.W. Lisse) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: MS-DOS actually exists (though it is not the pure art) Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 14:48:15 GMT References: Sender: usenet@quagga.ru.ac.za (Rhodes University NNTP server) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 30 In spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. E.W. Lisse) writes: >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 [...] I got it from simtel pd1:lenms41.zip thanks, el -- 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])