need perl for 286 Xenix

Chip Salzenberg chip at ateng.com
Thu Dec 7 05:14:36 AEST 1989


According to usenet at carssdf.UUCP (UseNet Id.):
>I am looking for an executable xenix 286 version of perl 3.0.  It is 
>my impression that a 286 system cannot compile this due to the table
>limits of yacc, but that a 386 version (with perl patch _six_) could
>generate a 286 compatible version.

While this is all true, a better approach is to have a friend run Yacc and
then compile his yacc output on your machine.  Thus you have sources, so you
can fix bugs and apply (some) patches.
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