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Subject: Re: Make, Scripts, Shell, Perl!?
From: Chris Timossi <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:18:52 -0800
>As I understand it perl is also free. It is certainly a negative
>to require its installation into UNIX prior to building EPICS. 
>Nevertheless, we are considering it because we end up installing 
>far less on other OS such as windows{NT,95} if perl is used
>to replace shell scripts (and use of awk, sed, grep, pwd, ...}.
>
>

It's also a negative to install gmake on UNIX (and a real negative, in
my opinion, to install gmake on NT), but people seem to have 
felt it was worth biting the bullet to gain the features.

The alternative to Perl is to write some C programs. If the scripts
are simple and there arent plans to add a bunch more, this may be the
most portable solution (though you still have to deal with the '/' vs
'\' difference somewhere).

Chris



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