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From: Bill Paul <wpaul>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/boot2 Makefile src/sys/boot/common         merge_help.awk merge_help.pl src/sys/boot/ficl Makefil
In-Reply-To: <199901181905.LAA20230@freefall.freebsd.org> from Michael Smith at "Jan 18, 99 11:05:27 am"
To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:24:57 -0800 (PST)
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>   Transition from using Perl to using awk for our text-manipulation
>   needs.  This removes the dependancy on Perl for the generation of the
>   loader, allowing the world to be built on a perl-free system.

And there was much rejoicing.

-Bill   

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