From: dan@sidhe.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 3:56 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Perl/Tk VMS prerelease

I'm not sure how many folks here use perl and aren't on the vmsperl list
(subscribe at vmsperl-request@perl.org if you want), but Jesper Naur's
recently gotten the Tk perl module working. For those that are unfamiliar
with it, this module provides access to the Tk library (which is included)
and gives perl programs access to DecWindows, which means you can now do
GUI things in perl.

The kit is definitely beta, so don't expect full spit'n'polish, but it
works pretty well and is fun to play with. You can fetch the base Tk
module at ftp://ftp.sidhe.org/VMSPerl_Community/Tk/tk800_012_tar.gz and
the patch kit (which has just the files that need replacing on VMS) at
ftp://ftp.sidhe.org/VMSPerl_Community/Tk/vmstk002tar.-gz. (Both kits are
gzipped tar files, so you'll need gzip and vmstar to undo them, along with
a C compiler to build)

Make sure you read the readmes first, since there are some hoops you need
to jump through to get the beta kit building.

					Dan