On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Wed, July 15, 1998 at 00:40:02 (-0700), The Source of All Evil wrote: ]
> > Subject: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
> >
> > msaitoh
> > Wed Jul 15 00:37:26 PDT 1998
> > Update of /cvsroot/src/libexec/identd
> > In directory nb00:/tmp/cvs-serv16110
> > 
> > Added Files:
> > 	pidentd2netbsd 
> > Log Message:
> > Add a perl script to convert a standard distribution directory for
> > pidentd into a NetBSD source tree.
> 
> A *perl* script?!?!?
> 
> Csh would be bad enough, but Perl?!?!?
> 
> So far as I know NetBSD still doesn't come with perl by default.  Yes, I
> realize that only "developers" will ever really need to run this thing,
> but still....

There is precedence. We use a perl script for importing gcc. :-)

Take care,

Bill