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Subject: Re: Perl 5.12.x (was: Re: gdb64b contains truncated info/dir file)
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On May 18, 5:23=A0pm, Rugxulo <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
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> At the risk of talking to myself (since you probably don't follow this
> group much), aren't you the DJGPP Perl dude? Or at least one of 'em?
> (mentioned in docs) By chance, have you tried building latest 5.12.0?
> (I don't need it, just vaguely curious since my attempts in Perl are
> pretty much non-existant ... although I did rebuild one or two older
> versions recently for laughs.)

Well, I seem to remember that I got fcntl working better, which
allowed
the perl of that day to do some things it could not previously do.

I haven't done any DJGPP development for years now, so no, I have not
tried rebuilding the latest perl.  I am more of a(n) (g)awk kind of
fellow.
I have to say perl always sort of scared me off with its complexity,
though I would probably enjoy it if I took the time to learn it
better.

IIRC, I got involved in the perl port because I needed it working as
part
of some other project I was working on that used perl for something
or
other (don't remember what at this point, sorry).

My day job as an IBM mainframe programmer sort of takes up most of
my programming time.  I don't have the Gnu ports on my employer's
mainframe, and Cygwin is just too big, so I use DJGPP ports when I
need them to do various small text processing tasks.

Thanks for the mention and the memory, though.

Regards,

Peter