Re: [Exim] [OT] ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/program…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andreas Metzler
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [OT] ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/ mirrors
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> > Correct, but also I did not want people to have to install another
> > package in order to install "vanilla" Exim. This was naive of me,
> > because I had reckoned without the many different DBM libraries that I
> > subsequently learned about...
>
> But you'll find one of those on _every_ system ;-)


Nowadays, yes. Back when I started on Exim there were some Linux
distributions that lacked a DBM library. This was a bit of a surprise
when I first discovered it. (All the proprietory Unixes had something.)

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