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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:25:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
To:        moos@degnet.baynet.de
Cc:        jlemon@americantv.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: undump or unexec
Message-ID:  <199611222225.OAA18944@crab.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <3295D642.2EDB@degnet.baynet.de> from Darius Moos at "Nov 22, 96 03:35:14 pm"

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Darius Moos writes:
| I've tried it and the resulting executable does not work correct.
| The source-perl-script uses stdin and stdout a lot. byteperl seems to
| garble some of the output.
| Any suggestions ???
| 
| Darius Moos.
| 
| Jonathan Lemon wrote:
| > 
| > > following this discussion the last days, i was wondering if anyone
| > > got "undump" compiled ?
| > 
| > I'll go out on a limb here and guess that you're trying to undump a perl
| > executable.  If this is the case, then you may want to check out the
| > perl compiler (see www.perl.com).
| > --
| > Jonathan
| > 
| > PS: FWIW, I never did get undump to work properly with perl4.

I've patched in emacs unexec to get this to work before with perl4 and
early alpha of perl5 of which I sent patches back to Larry.  He said 
he had some other scheme to fix the problems and I haven't needed for
a while so I don't know about the state of things recently.  I've never 
used undump since it seemed to complicated.

Doug A.



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