Perl documentation prior to version 5

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From [email protected]

Hi Fellow Perlion's

Is there a place I can get the Perl documentation prior to version 5?

We are studying the language at university for a project to work out its origins from (ie sed, awk ) and children as well as the changes in goals and features over the versions.

Regards,

Lloyd Mckie

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From @Hugmeir

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4​:45 AM, Lloyd MCKIE <perlbug-followup@​perl.org>wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Lloyd MCKIE
# Please include the string​: [perl #119275]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=119275 >

Hi Fellow Perlion's

Is there a place I can get the Perl documentation prior to version 5?

We are studying the language at university for a project to work out its
origins from (ie sed, awk ) and children as well as the changes in goals
and features over the versions.

If you clone the perl repository[0], you can use git to jump back to older
versions and read the docs from there. "git tag" will give you all the
versions available from the repo -- the only snag being that you'll have to
poke around, since it appears that the docs changed location and even
formats as time went on.

For example, I just did..
$ git tag
... tons of versions here ...
$ git checkout perl-4.0.36
$ ... some grepping to find the correct file here ...
$ man ./perl.man

To see the docs for 4.0.36.

[0] see http​://perldoc.perl.org/perlrepository.html

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From @jkeenan

On Fri Aug 16 01​:07​:02 2013, Hugmeir wrote​:

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4​:45 AM, Lloyd MCKIE <perlbug-
followup@​perl.org>wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Lloyd MCKIE
# Please include the string​: [perl #119275]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=119275 >

Hi Fellow Perlion's

Is there a place I can get the Perl documentation prior to version
5?

We are studying the language at university for a project to work out
its
origins from (ie sed, awk ) and children as well as the changes in
goals
and features over the versions.

If you clone the perl repository[0], you can use git to jump back to
older
versions and read the docs from there. "git tag" will give you all the
versions available from the repo -- the only snag being that you'll
have to
poke around, since it appears that the docs changed location and even
formats as time went on.

For example, I just did..
$ git tag
... tons of versions here ...
$ git checkout perl-4.0.36
$ ... some grepping to find the correct file here ...
$ man ./perl.man

To see the docs for 4.0.36.

[0] see http​://perldoc.perl.org/perlrepository.html

Since hugmeir has provided an answer to the original poster's query, and
since there was no bug claimed, I'm closing this ticket.

The ticket was simply a request for information, so it could have been
-- and probably should have been -- posted to p5p or another mailing
list or newsgroup rather than to our bug-tracking system. If anyone
wants to continue the discussion, I would ask that you continue it on
list rather than on RT.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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