Re: transports directory

[Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>]

On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> It wouldn't be so bad if perl-3, perl-4, and perl-5 were compatible, or
> if there weren't already a lot of sites with only one of these installed

  It is easy to write scripts that work in both perl4 and perl5.  I have 
scripts that depend on this.

> Besides, there's no documented set of minimum attributes and "features"
> available to a perl program(mer) -- i.e. perl integrates so much of the
> system environment.  This makes it exceedingly difficult to write truely
> portable perl programs.

  Remeber, we are talking about Zmailer.  Zmailer only works on Unix 
systems at the present.  Who cares whether NT perl or Unix perl work 
differently?  

Tom