28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: hints/os2.sh
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:52:11 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: hints/os2.sh

Updated.  I've deleted many of the apparently-no-longer-necessary
commented-out items.

28 years agoNew file.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:04:51 +0000]
New file.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: hints/machten.sh
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:10:33 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: hints/machten.sh

This version is specific to machten 4.X.  2.x.x has moved to its
own hint file.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: hints/linux.sh
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 7 Feb 1996 22:57:08 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: hints/linux.sh

Remove d_dosuid configurable option from hint file.  There's no universal
right value.

More info on NDBM_File hang-up.

28 years agoAllow Configure to look for libndbm.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:35:44 +0000]
Allow Configure to look for libndbm.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: hints/freebsd.sh
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 7 Feb 1996 22:57:00 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: hints/freebsd.sh

Remove d_dosuid configurable option from hint file.  There's no universal
right value.

28 years agoSome updates.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:05:36 +0000]
Some updates.

28 years agoOld habits die hard :-)
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:28:05 +0000]
Old habits die hard :-)

28 years agoPart of the MakeMaker 5.21 update.
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 7 Feb 1996 21:54:59 +0000]
Part of the MakeMaker 5.21 update.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: ext/Safe/Safe.xs
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 11 Feb 1996 08:24:43 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: ext/Safe/Safe.xs

Added +1 to maxo at Malcom's suggestion.  AIX will probably stil
get bad free().

28 years agoVERSION Patch
Paul Marquess [Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:09:49 +0000]
VERSION Patch

TieHash -> Tie::Hash

28 years agoRe: NETaa14816: tzname[] and SunOS - Here's a patch
Tim Bunce [Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:15:18 +0000]
Re: NETaa14816: tzname[] and SunOS - Here's a patch

28 years agoVERSION Patch
Paul Marquess [Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:09:49 +0000]
VERSION Patch

TieHash -> Tie::Hash Patch.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.xs
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 10 Feb 1996 02:06:58 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.xs

Allow compilation even if f[sg]etpos not available.

Allow compilation even if setvbuf() is not available.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:09:49 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm

>From pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.ukTue Feb  6 09:38:27 1996
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 14:09:49 GMT
>From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
>To: perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com
>Cc: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk
>Subject: VERSION Patch

>From chip@atlantic.netTue Feb  6 12:14:01 1996
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:03:43 -0500 (EST)
>From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
>To: andreas.koenig@mind.de
>Cc: perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com
>Subject: Beta3: Allow 'use FileHandle' in miniperl

28 years agoVMS-specific patch.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 8 Feb 1996 01:11:42 +0000]
VMS-specific patch.

28 years agoChange comp.lang.perl to comp.lang.perl.misc.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 8 Feb 1996 03:23:44 +0000]
Change comp.lang.perl to comp.lang.perl.misc.

28 years agoVERSION Patch
Paul Marquess [Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:09:49 +0000]
VERSION Patch

28 years agoVERSION Patch
Paul Marquess [Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:09:49 +0000]
VERSION Patch

TieHash -> Tie::Hash

28 years agoRegenerated.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 8 Feb 1996 03:29:02 +0000]
Regenerated.

28 years agoUpdated to version 1.20.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:15:10 +0000]
Updated to version 1.20.

28 years agoTMPFILE support
Ilya Zakharevich [Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:16:06 +0000]
TMPFILE support

Currently on DOSISH machines a -e line with a syntax error results in
persisting pl234523 tmpfile. The patch below:

a) Cleans up the cleanup code;
b) Moves the TMPPATH specifics to header files.

I do not send patches for OS/2 files, since they are very much
reworked now, I only note that b) allows OS/2 startup to specify
TMPPATH to look to a $ENV{TMP} directory (instead of the current
directory, as it is now). Note that this allows now running -e perl
from read-only media.

Since there is no place now to have DOSISH _code_, as opposed to
_headers_, I leave the TMPPATH code on ./os2/os2.c, though it should
be common to DOS as well.

Enjoy,
Ilya

28 years agoInplace editing broken if DOSISH
Ilya Zakharevich [Sun, 4 Feb 1996 21:34:29 +0000]
Inplace editing broken if DOSISH

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: configure
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 4 Feb 1996 02:38:05 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: configure

Add explicit call to 'sh'.  This appears to keep the x2p/Makefile.SH
extraction from clobbering the main Makefile on Linux.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: config_h.SH
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 9 Feb 1996 01:10:16 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: config_h.SH

Delete the VMS and UNLINK_ALL_VERSIONS defines.

Some parts are rearranged.

28 years agoUpdated to match current Configure.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 8 Feb 1996 04:20:21 +0000]
Updated to match current Configure.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: Makefile.SH
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:42:13 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: Makefile.SH

Include the proper -Ilib for miniperl test.

Use ./miniperl in case user doesn't have '.' in PATH.

28 years agoUpdated.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 9 Feb 1996 01:20:54 +0000]
Updated.

28 years agoAdd a few more notes about use of extensions across multiple versions.
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 7 Feb 1996 22:58:45 +0000]
Add a few more notes about use of extensions across multiple versions.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: Configure
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 9 Feb 1996 01:10:16 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: Configure

Remove d_vms and d_unlnkallvers constants.  These should be set
in vmsish.h (and optionally undef'd in unixish.h, dosish.h).

Send the &-d info to >&4 so you see it even with -s.

Update unixism comments.

Introduce new nm_so_opt variable that holds options that might be
required for use with nm on shared libraries but that are fatal
if used on archive libraries.

Move suid question closer to top.  This also shuffled a few other
units.

Start varargs testing script with $startsh.

Start O_NONBLOCK testing script with $startsh.

Detect OS/2 early on.

28 years agoperl 5.002gamma: [patch introduction and re-organisations]
Andy Dougherty [Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:53:00 +0000]
perl 5.002gamma: [patch introduction and re-organisations]

[ re-organisations:

# Give this module a sensible home.
mv pod/PerlDoc/Functions.pm lib/Pod/Functions.pm
rmdir pod/PerlDoc

# Tie:: finally has its own hierarchy
mkdir lib/Tie
mv lib/TieHash.pm lib/Tie/Hash.pm
mv lib/SubstrHash.pm lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm

rm -f lib/FileHandle.pm    # Duplicate of ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
rm -f os2/diff.MANIFEST    # Obsolete (I applied a variant of it.)
rm -f os2/diff.init        # Obsolete.

]

This is patch.2gamma to perl5.002 beta3.
This takes you from 5.002beta3 to 5.002gamma.

To apply this patch, run the above commands, then
cd to your perl source directory and then type

        patch -p1 -N < patch.2gamma

The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below.  This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as

        csplit -k patch.2gamma '/^Index:/' '{99}'

(Of course since there are 116 items and most csplit's have an
arbitrary limit of 100 files, you'll probably have to manually split
this file first, but you get the idea.  (GNU csplit doesn't have this
limitation.  Nor does a perl solution, of course.))

Patch and enjoy,

    Andy Dougherty              doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

28 years agoperl5.002beta3
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 3 Feb 1996 02:52:27 +0000]
perl5.002beta3

[editor's note: no patch file was found for this release, so no
fine-grained changes]

I can't find the password for our ftp server, so I had to drop it into
ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/incoming/perl5.002b3.tar.gz, which is a drop
directory you can't ls.

The current plan is that Andy is gonna whack on this a little more, and
then release a gamma in a few days when he's happy with it.  So don't get
carried away.  This is now *late* beta.

In other words, have less than the appropriate amount of fun.  :-)

Larry

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: toke.c
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:05:06 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: toke.c

Chip's U8/STDCHAR patch.

Tim's "add a ; after PERL5DB" patch.

28 years agoNot having Socket shouldn't result in test failing TEST harness.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:35:51 +0000]
Not having Socket shouldn't result in test failing TEST harness.

28 years agoNot having Safe shouldn't result in test failing TEST harness.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:35:43 +0000]
Not having Safe shouldn't result in test failing TEST harness.

28 years agoNot having POSIX shouldn't result in test failing TEST harness.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:33:14 +0000]
Not having POSIX shouldn't result in test failing TEST harness.

28 years agoDebugger patch.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:05:05 +0000]
Debugger patch.

28 years agoAdd DESCRIPTION to head1 line.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:11:16 +0000]
Add DESCRIPTION to head1 line.

28 years agoWork around a pod2man complaint about the -X function.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 22:04:15 +0000]
Work around a pod2man complaint about the -X function.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: pod/perlembed.pod
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 9 Jan 1996 03:02:51 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: pod/perlembed.pod

Give correct usage for the 5th arg to perl_parse (don't pass
env).

28 years agoUse PERL=../miniperl
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 5 Jan 1996 01:14:30 +0000]
Use PERL=../miniperl

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: perl.c
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:05:05 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: perl.c

Change Copyright date to include 1996.  Hope you don't mind.

Presumptively call this beta2.

28 years agoChip's U8/STDCHAR patch.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:05:05 +0000]
Chip's U8/STDCHAR patch.

28 years agoMore robust i18nl14n() function from jhi.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 8 Jan 1996 09:00:19 +0000]
More robust i18nl14n() function from jhi.

28 years agoIlya's new debugger.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 22:23:31 +0000]
Ilya's new debugger.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 22:23:31 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm

Stub new file to interface to various readline packages, or
give stub functions if none are found.

28 years agoUpdated documentation to match program.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 5 Jan 1996 03:05:26 +0000]
Updated documentation to match program.

28 years agoFixed exporting of symbols to work.
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 10 Jan 1996 01:46:24 +0000]
Fixed exporting of symbols to work.

28 years agoUpdated to MakeMaker-5.16
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:13:05 +0000]
Updated to MakeMaker-5.16

28 years agoUndo Tim's tainting patch from beta1h.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 5 Jan 1996 03:02:28 +0000]
Undo Tim's tainting patch from beta1h.

28 years agoUse File::Path::mkpath instead of our own makedir().
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 03:12:16 +0000]
Use File::Path::mkpath instead of our own makedir().

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: installman
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 03:12:30 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: installman

Use File::Path::mkpath instead of our own makedir().
./perl installman --man1dir=man1 could lead to infinte recursion
in old makedir() routine.  Use the standard library instead.

28 years agoAvoid VMS sprintf bug with buffers >1024.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:27:27 +0000]
Avoid VMS sprintf bug with buffers >1024.

28 years agoUse unsigned shorts for ports.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:59:52 +0000]
Use unsigned shorts for ports.

28 years agoPatch for older compilers which had namespace confusion.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 5 Jan 1996 01:27:47 +0000]
Patch for older compilers which had namespace confusion.

28 years agoPatch from Andreas.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:52:33 +0000]
Patch from Andreas.

28 years agoGive correct prototype for free.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:33:32 +0000]
Give correct prototype for free.

28 years agoMake the NAME section a legal paragraph.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 03:11:38 +0000]
Make the NAME section a legal paragraph.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:16:49 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch

Disable prototypes.
Disable pod2man.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: doop.c
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:05:04 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: doop.c

Chip's patch to use STDCHAR and U8 nearly everywhere instead of
assuming 8-bit chars or ~(char) 0 == 0xff.

28 years agoUpdates from Tim's -m/-M/-V patch.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 12 Jan 1996 02:09:11 +0000]
Updates from Tim's  -m/-M/-V patch.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: MANIFEST
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 13 Jan 1996 03:30:43 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: MANIFEST

Include Stub Readline library as part of new debugger.

Include hints file dec_osf for ODBM_File extension.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta2 patch: Configure
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:09:13 +0000]
perl 5.002beta2 patch: Configure

Use nm -D on Linux with shared libraries, if the system
supports nm -D.

28 years agoAdd missing "" around $Config{startperl}.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:11:27 +0000]
Add missing "" around $Config{startperl}.

28 years agoUse new config_h.SH STARTPERL #define.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:11:28 +0000]
Use new config_h.SH STARTPERL #define.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:33:32 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm

Updated for VMS.  This might be obsolete now that we have
lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm.

28 years agoUpdated for VMS.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:34:26 +0000]
Updated for VMS.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/pl2pm.PL
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 3 Jan 1996 01:14:57 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/pl2pm.PL

Changed into a .PL extract file for proper setting of
$startperl.

Add _minimal_ pod documentation.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/perldoc.PL
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 01:28:08 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/perldoc.PL

Better error handling.

Updated to use Pod::Text, if available.

More VMS friendly.

New -u option .

28 years agoNew utility.
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 18 Nov 1995 03:15:13 +0000]
New utility.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/h2xs.PL
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 00:50:55 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/h2xs.PL

Add version stuff.

The old version didn't have a number.  This one's called 1.12.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/h2ph.PL
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:13:31 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/h2ph.PL

Add patch for AIX files which sometimes have #include<foo.h>,
i.e., no spaces after the word 'include'.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/c2ph.PL
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 3 Jan 1996 01:05:41 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: utils/c2ph.PL

Ungracefully merge the old c2ph.doc in as an embedded pod.

Delete lots of trailing spaces and tabs that have crept in.

28 years agoNew file to build the utilities.
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 3 Jan 1996 01:06:18 +0000]
New file to build the utilities.

28 years agoNew test.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 02:43:53 +0000]
New test.

28 years agoVMS changes ?
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:32:50 +0000]
VMS changes ?

28 years agoRebuilt using pod/buildtoc and fmt.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:04:20 +0000]
Rebuilt using  pod/buildtoc and fmt.

28 years agoMention the Safe extension.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 4 Jan 1996 00:52:14 +0000]
Mention the Safe extension.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: pod/Makefile
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 3 Jan 1996 02:06:41 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: pod/Makefile

Include -I../lib so that pod2* can find the appropriate libraries.

The pod names are once again sorted.

The PERL line is wrong.  It should read
This file is automatically generated, but I happened to do it on
a system without miniperl avaialable, so my script fell back on
the perl default.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: perl.h
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:21:55 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: perl.h

5.002beta1 attempted some memory optimizations, but unfortunately
they can result in a memory leak problem.  This can be
avoided by #define STRANGE_MALLOC.  I do that here until
consensus is reached on a better strategy for handling the
memory optimizations.

Include maxo for the maximum number of operations (needed
for the Safe extension).

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: perl.c
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 4 Jan 1996 02:13:53 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: perl.c

Updated to say beta1h.

Move VMS env code.

28 years agoUpdated
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:09:56 +0000]
Updated

28 years agoNew file.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 26 Dec 1995 06:55:30 +0000]
New file.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: miniperlmain.c
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:03:37 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: miniperlmain.c

Better locale handling, courtesy of jhi.

Include a proper cast of NULL for non-prototyping compilers.

28 years agoGive a proper NAME description.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 01:30:24 +0000]
Give a proper NAME description.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: mg.c
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 4 Jan 1996 00:49:12 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: mg.c

Set up a reliable signal handler, courtesy of Kenneth Albanowski.
This needs to be documented still.  The idea is that even on
System V systems, you won't have to reset the signal handler as
the first action inside your signal handler.

28 years agoUse the 'new' startperl variable.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:11:28 +0000]
Use the 'new' startperl variable.

28 years agoFix some old typos.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:10:37 +0000]
Fix some old typos.

28 years agoA patch from Tim Bunce (?)
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:10:37 +0000]
A patch from Tim Bunce (?)

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: lib/Pod/Text.pm
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:16:50 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: lib/Pod/Text.pm

New file.  This was created by Dov (???) and enhanced
by Kenneth Albanowski, but all based on Tom C.'s pod2text.
Unfortunately, they used a version of pod2text earlier than
the one in patch.2b1g.  I've tried to straighten this all out.

Equally unfortunately, we've all left Tom as the AUTHOR, even
though we can't hold him responsible for errors he didn't
introduce.  Oh well.

28 years agoVMS-specific changes.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:30:49 +0000]
VMS-specific changes.

28 years agoUpdated from xsubpp-1.924 to 1.929.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:29:59 +0000]
Updated from xsubpp-1.924 to 1.929.

28 years agoUpdated from MakeMaker 5.12 to 5.16.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 01:07:10 +0000]
Updated from MakeMaker 5.12 to 5.16.

28 years agoNew file. Incorporates VMS-specific items into MakeMaker.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 01:07:10 +0000]
New file.  Incorporates VMS-specific items into MakeMaker.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: lib/Exporter.pm
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:02:08 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: lib/Exporter.pm

Include Tim Bunce's enhanced Exporter.  I also tried to
resolve the two copies of documentation that I had.

28 years agoVMS patches.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:28:57 +0000]
VMS patches.

28 years agoHonor trailing \n in messages, as is done for warn().
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:10:38 +0000]
Honor trailing \n in messages, as is done for warn().

28 years agoAvoid tainting problems.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 2 Jan 1996 03:10:36 +0000]
Avoid tainting problems.

28 years agoperl 5.002beta1h patch: installperl
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 3 Jan 1996 01:33:57 +0000]
perl 5.002beta1h patch: installperl

Use new location of utility scripts.

Eliminate double '//' and extra "".

28 years agoUse fork if available.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 28 Dec 1995 03:06:11 +0000]
Use fork if available.