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On Thursday 15 May 2003 16:05, Brandon S. Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 19:02, Wes Peters wrote:
> > Has anyone run a recent -STABLE with Perl 5.6.1 in place of the
> > system Perl?  I'm doing something like this at work in the near
> > future, so I'm interested in the outcome if it has already happened
> > and completely willing to share my results if it hasn't already been
> > done.
>
> I've been doing that (and more recently 5.8.0) via "use.perl port" on
> -STABLE for a while now; no problems.

Cool, thanks.  It sounds like my little project should go well.  We've 
considered jumping straight to 5.8.0; your input helps make that 
decision.

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        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com