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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-02-21 04:56:05 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-02-21 04:56:05 +0000
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More advice.
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@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html
=head2 Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
+If using ftp remember to transfer the distribution in binary format.
+
Gunzip/gzip for OS/390 is discussed at:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/faq/bpxqp1.html
@@ -39,12 +41,17 @@ to extract an ASCII tar archive on OS/390, try this:
pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar
-If you get errors of the form
+If you get lots of errors of the form
tar: FSUM7171 ...: cannot set uid/gid: EDC5139I Operation not permitted.
tar: FSUM7148 cannot create file "...": EDC5111I Permission denied.
-you didn't read the above and tried to use tar instead of pax.
+you didn't read the above and tried to use tar instead of pax, you'll
+first have to remove the (now corrupt) perl directory
+
+ rm -rf perl-...
+
+and then use pax.
=head2 Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390