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-From the distribution README:
-
-Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk
-and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also two Nutshell
-Handbooks published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod
-for more information.
+Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed,
+awk and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also
+many published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod for more
+information.
--
-This port will not work on FreeBSD 2.0, nor will it work on earlier snapshots.
-This is due to a bug in vprintf in the C library.
+This port is marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics badly with the Perl5
+that is in the 'base' system. Sysadmins and users who know how to
+override this may do so, and must accept the risk of doing so.
- MarkM