[Rd] several documentation problems (PR#675)

[sws96srb@met.reading.ac.uk]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
> > Date: 02 Oct 2000 14:58:58 +0200
> >
> > sws96srb@met.rdg.ac.uk writes:
> >
> > > In all sorts of places - wherever Rdconvlib.pl is used I guess. I have perl
> > > 5.002,
> > > gcc 2.95.2 Solaris 2.6, teTeX 0.4.
> >
> > Your perl version seems to be a bit old. Although we formally only
> > require Perl 5, 5.002 may have gone untested. The problems definitely
> > look Perl related.
> 
> As far as I recall 5.002 was buggy and we rapidly went to 5.004.
> (Something similar happened in RedHat Linux 5.2's Perl.)   We would
> recommend upgrading to Perl 5.6.0.
> 

<snip>

Many thanks to everyone for the help. I've upgraded to Perl 5.6.0 and
all makes now flow through with no errors. 

-- 

Sheila


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Dr. Sheila Bryant                           Dept. of Meteorology,
Email: S.R.Bryant@reading.ac.uk             University of Reading,
Phone: 0118 931 6395                        Earley Gate, Whiteknights,
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                                            Reading. RG6 6BB.   UK

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