Re: The 5.8.0 port anyone?

On Tue 01 Jul, Glyn Royds wrote:
> 
> Back in March Alex reported that he had a port of 5.8.0 but his site is down
> :( Does anyone else know where this (or even 5.6) could be found?

I'd also love to get my hands on a later version of Perl for
RISC OS, but I recall Alex Waugh saying that his port was not
complete and was very much alpha test only.

> 5.005 doesn't get along too happily with the sprintf'ing (%b016)
> that I need :-(

What is %b016 supposed to do? Perhaps it would be better to write a
routine for Perl 5.005 to do it. That way you wouldn't be dependent
on 5.8 and could run your program on RISC OS using a more stable
version of Perl.

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James Taylor, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.       PGP key: 3FBE1BF9