perl -v gives different answer, what gives

[Larry Wall]

In article <1989Nov14.073709.20209 at eda.com> jim at eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
: {/files/home/staff/jim at eda:51} perl -v
: $Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.1 89/11/11 04:50:04 lwall Locked $
: 
: Copyright (c) 1989, Larry Wall
: 
: Perl may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,

The lines are missing because of a bug that Sun has subsequently fixed.
For that reason, I'm not going to post an official patch for it, but until
you upgrade your SunOS, you can workaround it by saying

#define fputs(what,where) fprintf(where,"%s",what)

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov