From: afn03257 AT freenet3 DOT afn DOT org (Daniel P Hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: PERL
Date: 27 Jan 1997 04:04:18 GMT
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Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org> wrote:
>I downloaded from a directory called gnuish on simtel.net a file called
>perl4016.zip. Is this a PERL interpreter for DOS?

 YES. However, it is not a 32bit implementation, it is 16bit DOS based.
 I mentioned where you can get a 32bit Perl before but no one listened.
 Any simtelnet or Coast-to-coast mirror under
 /msdos/perl/ download bperl4x.zip, this is a 32bit perl implementaiton
 and it is distributed under the GNU public liscence.

 From the readme.dos file

                               "BIGPERL"
                        Perl 4.0M4 patchlevel 36
                            October 24, 1994
              By Darryl Okahata (Internet: darrylo AT sr DOT hp DOT com)
                        (Compuserve: 75206,3074)


     This version of Perl 4.0 has been compiled using the WATCOM
C/C++^32 compiler, version 10.0a, which generates flat, 32-bit code that
runs under MSDOS and Windows (with some limitations -- see below).

*************
* IMPORTANT *
*************
     The basic Perl sources belong to:
                Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991, Larry Wall
                          All rights reserved.