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Re: Perl5 vs Perl4

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  • Subject: Re: Perl5 vs Perl4
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 15:12:31 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 1 May 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> Robb-
> 
>    I actually already made the fix.  I changed the first line in ldmfail
> to use Perl5 (/usr/local/bin/perl), instead of the default IRIX 5.3 Perl4
> (/usr/sbin/perl).  
>    Do you see ANY reason why I should keep two versions of Perl around?

Noop,  all perl 4 scripts run on perl 5 unless there is some weird perl4
code. Some on the new decoders actually require perl 5.   They are going
to release perl 5.004 sometime soon.


Robb...


> Note that /usr/sbin/perl is Perl4 and that's what comes with the OS,
> and /usr/local/bin/perl is Perl5 that I built myself?
> 
>            Thanks,
>                Paul
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer                          Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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