MS-DOS patches to perl. Apply this patch to the standard perl source, version 4, patch level 19, using "patch -p." Do this in the root directory of the perl source distribution. You can cat all these patches together and pipe the output to patch -p. Len Reed Holos Software, Inc. ..!gatech!holos0!lbr holos0!lbr@gatech.edu -------------------------------------- *** msdos/Wishlist.dds.old Tue Apr 23 23:48:56 1991 --- msdos/Wishlist.dds Thu Nov 14 08:56:54 1991 *************** *** 1,3 **** --- 1,7 ---- + Note: this is Diomidis Spinellis' original wishlist, distrbuted + with perl 3.018, April 1990. I have added a couple of comments. + - Len Reed, Sep. 1991 + Perl in general: Add ftw or find? Add a parsing mechanism (user specifies parse tree, perl parses). *************** *** 6,13 **** MS-DOS version of Perl: Add interface to treat dBase files as associative arrays. Add int86x function. ! Handle the C preprocessor. Provide real pipes by switching the processes. (difficult) Provide a list of ioctl codes. Check the ioctl errno handling. --- 10,18 ---- MS-DOS version of Perl: Add interface to treat dBase files as associative arrays. + (gdbm added Sep. 1991 - L. Reed) Add int86x function. ! Handle the C preprocessor. (Done, Nov. 1990, L. Reed) Provide real pipes by switching the processes. (difficult) Provide a list of ioctl codes. Check the ioctl errno handling.