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Is anyone (else) porting Perl 4.036 or 5.x to the Amiga? [was Re: Help - backquotes in Amiga Perl?]

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From: Tomas Charles Willis
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:32
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In article <DI2r76.A3K@dsbc.icl.co.uk>,
Brian Thompstone <sut@oasis.icl.co.uk> wrote:
>I have just installed perl4.035 on my Amiga. The interpreter itself seems 
>to be reasonably happy, but I can't get any back-quoted commands to work
>    e.g. $var=`who`;
This works on my personal version of 4.036.
No I am not planning on releasing it soon.
> 
>PS - is there a more recent port? 
>
Is anyone associated more closely with the Amiga GNU porting/gcc project
working on Perl?  I just want to get latex2html to work...
I applied the patches for 4.036 to the Amiga 4.035 sources, but I havent
run the regression test or anything.  Is anyone farther along?

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Subject: Is anyone (else) porting Perl 4.036 or 5.x to the Amiga? [was Re: Help - backquotes in Amiga Perl?]
Date: 18 Nov 1995 20:32:49 GMT
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