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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 20:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>
To: "Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica" <compland@ism.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Perl v.5
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica wrote:

> Hi:
> 
>    I'm running FreeBSD 2.1R (from Walnut Creek cdrom). I know that it cames
> with perl v.5, but when I issue a 'perl -v', I got 'Perl Version 4'. I need
> to run 
> perl v.5. What can I do ? 
>

You can get perl-5.002 from ports-current. I installed it on this
2.1.0-Release system. It compiled it without any problems, and required
no changes to the Makefile or patches.
 
> Thanks!
> Helio.
> 

Barry Masterson
jbarrm@panix.com
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