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Article #239Re: perl -v gives different answer, what gives
From: Larry Wall
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 21:48
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 21:48
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In article <1989Nov14.073709.20209@eda.com> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
: {/files/home/staff/jim@eda:51} perl -v
: $Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.1 89/11/11 04:50:04 lwall Locked $
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: Copyright (c) 1989, Larry Wall
:
: Perl may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
The lines are missing because of a bug that Sun has subsequently fixed.
For that reason, I'm not going to post an official patch for it, but until
you upgrade your SunOS, you can workaround it by saying
#define fputs(what,where) fprintf(where,"%s",what)
Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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