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- From: rgh@pern (Richard G. Hash)
- Subject: Re: Octal chmod status
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 16:15:28 GMT
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- >It took me mere seconds to write the perl solution. It requires
- >no separate a.out and source code, and can be easily embedded in
- >a shell script if you want. How long does it take you to write
- >the C code, compile it for every single architecture on which it
- >might run, then copy the binary around to every machine you want
- >to run it on?
-
- This tends to ignore how long it takes you to compile and install
- perl on every machine you want *it* to run on...
-
- Let's see, I have to worry about sun{3,4}, hp9000s{3,7,8}00, dec3100,
- Cray YMP, Ncube, RS6000, Apollo, Amhdahl UTS, VAX (Ultrix), and I'm
- sure there's some others I can't recall right now. Yup, use 'em all, all
- the time. Gee Tom, if you could just ship me some ready-to-install
- perl distributions for ALL those machines I'll being using it tomorrow.
-
- Face it, perl isn't everywhere (though I would like for it to be),
- and it's not *always* the answer to everything.
-
- >--
- > Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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- Richard G. Hash
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