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On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 06:59:15PM -0800, Prymmer/Kahn wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
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> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:20:20AM -0800, Prymmer/Kahn wrote:
> > >
> > > I note that on page xxiv of the preface to B<Programming Perl, 3rd Ed.>
> > > that these README.platform files are referred to as INSTALL.platform
> > > files. While the following patch does not affect such a large name change
> >
> > Awwww. I might ask Larry to have erratum saying that what he really
> > meant is README.platform.
>
> Actually I thought that it cut through the problem with README.vms versus
> vms/perlvms.pod quite nicely since it gets to be more explicit about what
> is supposed to go in the file. You could `mv README.vms INSTALL.vms` and
> it would be just fine, whereas there'd be more of splitting into
> components bit of the README.win32 file I'd think.
These days we have 23 platform-specific READMEs. <groan>
> Peter Prymmer
>
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