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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-11-29 22:32:49 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-11-29 22:32:49 +0000
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README.vos updates from Paul Green.
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@@ -8,13 +8,18 @@ README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-This is a port of Perl version 5 to VOS. Perl is a scripting or macro
-language that is popular on many systems. See L<perlbook> for a
-number of good books on Perl.
-
-This is instructions for compiling Perl from source. For most people,
-you can simply download a pre-compiled distribution from
-ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/ga.html
+This is a port of Perl version 5 to VOS. Perl is a scripting or
+macro language that is popular on many systems. See L<perlbook>
+for a number of good books on Perl.
+
+These are instructions for building Perl from source. Most people can
+simply download a pre-compiled distribution from the VOS anonymous FTP
+site. If you are running VOS Release 14.2.0 or earlier, download Perl
+from ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/alpha/alpha.html. If you are
+running VOS Release 14.3.0 or later, download Perl from
+ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/ga.html. Instructions for
+unbundling the Perl distribution file are at
+ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html.
=head2 Stratus POSIX Support
@@ -237,10 +242,10 @@ seller.
=head1 AUTHOR
-Paul Green (Paul_Green@stratus.com)
+Paul Green (Paul.Green@stratus.com)
=head1 LAST UPDATE
-July 4, 2001
+November 29, 2001
=cut