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Archive-name: msdos-perl/10-May-90
Original-posting-by: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen)
Original-subject: PERL3.ZIP - Practical Extraction and Report Language, v3.0
Archive-site: wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.2.0.74]
Archive-directory: pd1:<msdos.perl>
Archive-files: perl3.zip
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

[--forwarded message--]
From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds%cc.ic.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Re:   MS-DOS version of Perl

I have uploaded the MS-DOS binary of Larry Walls Perl to SIMTEL20.

pd1:<msdos.perl>
PERL3.ZIP       Practical Extraction and Report Language, v3.0

Here is a summary:

Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning  arbi-
trary  text  files,  extracting  information from those text
files, and printing reports based on that information.  It's
also  a good language for many system management tasks.  The
language is intended to be practical  (easy  to  use,  effi-
cient,  complete)  rather  than  beautiful  (tiny,  elegant,
minimal).  It combines (in  the  author's  opinion,  anyway)
some  of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people
familiar with those languages should have little  difficulty
with  it.

Regards

Diomidis

[--end forwarded message--]

Thanks, Diomidis!  We've had a lot of requests for this.  I took the
liberty of repacking the ARC you uploaded into a ZIP as we're short of
disk space on SIMTEL20.  The ZIP is 96K smaller, which should make
downloaders happy.  It's now 217538 bytes.

Keith
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