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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Nate Williams <nate@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl doio.c tdoio.c
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Nate Williams writes:
> nate        96/12/03 13:56:18
> 
>   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl  doio.c tdoio.c
>   Log:
>   Added support for '-T' and '-B' (text and binary) file recognition by
>   peeking inside of Chris Torek's stdio library internals.  This is
>   similar to the code used for other systems, but didn't work on CT's new
>   implementation.
>   
>   Submitted by:	Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>

If any of the ports folks would like to pick this up and try to
shoe-horn it into the Perl5 port it might be nice.  Or, someone who is a
real Perl 5 weenie might want to see if you can submit this back to
Larry and Perl porters list.

I don't keep up and don't have time to mess with it.


Nate