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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:54:07 -0700
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Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:28:51PM -0700, Studded wrote:
> > I'm curious as to whether/how much the COMPAT_43 option is still needed
> > in a modern system. Before someone says, "Why don't you take it out and
> > find out for yourself?" I would be glad to do that and report the
> > results (after the release of course) if someone could state with
> > reasonable assurance that most things would still work. :)
> 
> Most things would still work.

	Indeed. I was fine right up till the time I tried to access the
internet with a perl program. Then I got the following error:

Address family not supported by protocol family
aka
EAFNOSUPPORT    47

	This was with using the perl 5.00502 port on -Stable. I realize this
isn't high on anyone's list of things to fix, but I thought I'd mention
it. :)

Doug

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