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Hi,

On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:09:33PM -0500, Robert J. Brown wrote:
>     Gert> Klaus' "faxman" does this, using Perl/Tk as the underlying
>     Gert> platform.  It worked well, some ages ago, can't say whether
>     Gert> it still works with the current version of Perl/Tk - it's in
>     Gert> frontends/tkperl/ - volunteers to hack on it and fix it are
>     Gert> very welcome.
> 
> This raises an interesting question: does this tool use perl/tk, or
> tkperl?  They are different, you know.  

It was started with tkperl, but converted to Perl/Tk quickly.  AFAIK, it
doesn't work with tkperl at all anymore (and nobody really cares).

> Besides, tkperl is no longer
> being maintained.  The .21 distribution of mgetty tends to imply that
> the tkperl package iss needed.  I gave up trying to find a source
> distribution for it.

No, it's perl/tk.  That's a documentation bug.

gert
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