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authorPerl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com>1996-09-07 03:16:00 +0000
committerAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1996-09-07 03:16:00 +0000
commit740ce14cd863bb8986a54f425a6f1ec20b26c6cc (patch)
treee25f5b48ba535ed07ec57bf13ed1c50973dbacd1 /README.vms
parentc43cd16b2d0254cdf3b775a546b5a6986ff4b90a (diff)
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VMS 5.003_05 Update.
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@@ -292,10 +292,10 @@ of to the Perl bug reporting address, perlbug@perl.com.
* For more information
-If you're interested in more information on Perl in general, consult the Usenet
-newsgroups comp.lang.perl.announce and comp.lang.perl.misc. The FAQ for these
-groups provides pointers to other online sources of information, as well as
-books describing Perl in depth.
+If you're interested in more information on Perl in general, you may wish to
+consult the Usenet newsgroups comp.lang.perl.announce and comp.lang.perl.misc.
+The FAQ for these groups provides pointers to other online sources of
+information, as well as books describing Perl in depth.
If you're interested in up-to-date information on Perl development and
internals, you might want to subscribe to the perl5-porters mailing list. You
@@ -305,11 +305,12 @@ subscribe perl5-porters
This is a high-volume list at the moment (>50 messages/day).
If you're interested in ongoing information about the VMS port, you can
-subscribe to the VMSperl mailing list by sending a request to
-bailey@genetics.upenn.edu (it's to a human, not a list server - this is a small
-operation at the moment). And, as always, we welcome any help or code you'd
+subscribe to the VMSPerl mailing list by sending a request to
+vmsperl-request@genetics.upenn.edu, containing the single line
+subscribe VMSPerl
+as the body of the message. And, as always, we welcome any help or code you'd
like to offer - you can send mail to bailey@genetics.upenn.edu or directly to
-the VMSperl list at vmsperl@genetics.upenn.edu.
+the VMSPerl list at vmsperl@genetics.upenn.edu.
Finally, if you'd like to try out the latest changes to VMS Perl, you can
retrieve a test distribution kit by anonymous ftp from genetics.upenn.edu, in
@@ -341,14 +342,17 @@ missed someone. That said, special thanks are due to the following:
for the getredirection() code
Rich Salz <rsalz@bbn.com>
for readdir() and related routines
- Richard Dyson <dyson@blaze.physics.uiowa.edu> and
- Kent Covert <kacovert@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- for additional testing on the AXP.
+ Peter Prymmer <pvhp@lns62.lns.cornell.edu)
+ for extensive testing, as well as development work on
+ configuration and documentation for VMS Perl,
+ the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and the
+ Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at Cornell University for
+ the the opportunity to test and develop for the AXP,
and to the entire VMSperl group for useful advice and suggestions. In addition
the perl5-porters, especially Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
and Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>, deserve credit for their creativity and
willingness to work with the VMS newcomers. Finally, the greatest debt of
-gratitude is due to Larry Wall <lwall@sems.com>, for having the ideas which
+gratitude is due to Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>, for having the ideas which
have made our sleepless nights possible.
Thanks,