Everhart, Glenn
From:	Dan Sugalski [sugalskd@osshe.edu]
Sent:	Wednesday, September 02, 1998 12:15 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: reading MS files under VMS -Summary
At 01:19 PM 9/2/1998 +0100, Chris Sharman wrote:
>Installing perl was a nightmare though: the version(s?) on the freeware
>disk wouldn't compile (using Alpha VMS 7.1, DECC 5.7).
>I eventually got Perl 5.004 from the web.

Yeah, the older versions were a pain. Building 5.004 is fairly simple
(though it requires a few tweaks to shut Dec C 5.7 up), and building 5.005
(the latest version) should be drop-dead simple. (I wrote a good chunk of
the configuration scrip it uses, so if it's not working, tell me and I'll
fix it)

Source for both 5.004_04 and 5.005_02 (the latest versions) are on the CPAN
network of machines. The easiest way to grab it is via the CPAN web
redirector at http://cpan.perl.org/src/stable.tar.gz or
http://cpan.perl.org/src/stable.zip (unzip with the -a switch!) for
5.004_04 source. 5.005_02 source is at
http://cpan.perl.org/src/latest.tar.gz or
http://cpan.perl.org/src/latest.zip. (Once again, remember the -a switch to
unzip) Heading to http://cpan.perl.org/SITES.html will give you a list of
FTP sites if you want to grab it that way.

There are binaries of 5.004_04 for both Vax and Alpha on a variety of VMS
versions hanging off http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl (or, via FTP,
ftp://ftp.sidhe.org. Perl version, vms version, and processor are noted in
the filenames. I'd recommend web access, though)

					Dan

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