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diff --git a/README.vms b/README.vms index 259e04e3f0..d44cd129bf 100644 --- a/README.vms +++ b/README.vms @@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ of web/ftp sites and is distributed on the OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM from Compaq. http://www.fsf.org/order/ftp.html - http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/GZIP/ - ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/VMS/ + http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/ http://www.crinoid.com/utils/ =item 2 VMS TAR @@ -103,20 +102,18 @@ available from a number of web/ftp sites and is distributed on the OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM from Compaq. ftp://ftp.lp.se/vms/ - http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/VMSTAR/ - ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/VMS/ + http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/ =item 3 UNZIP.EXE for VMS A combination decompressor and archive reader/writer for *.zip files. Unzip is available from a number of web/ftp sites. - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/UnZip.html - http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/INFO-ZIP/ - ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/VMS/ + http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html + http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/ ftp://ftp.openvms.compaq.com/ ftp://ftp.madgoat.com/madgoat/ - ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/ + ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/ =item 4 MOST @@ -126,7 +123,7 @@ regular expression searching). Most builds with the slang library on VMS. Most and slang are available from: ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/ - ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/narnia/most.zip + ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/narnia/ =item 5 GNU PATCH and DIFFUTILS for VMS @@ -136,6 +133,7 @@ distribution) and applied with GNU patch. VMS ports of these utilities are available here: http://www.crinoid.com/utils/ + http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/ =back @@ -202,7 +200,7 @@ source into: DKA200:[PERL-5_10_2...] -Then the PERL_SETUP.COM that gets written out by Configure.com will +Then the PERL_SETUP.COM that gets written out by CONFIGURE.COM will try to DEFINE your installation PERL_ROOT to be: DKA200:[PERL-5_10_2_ROOT.] @@ -221,15 +219,12 @@ below. =head2 Changing compile-time options (optional) for Perl on VMS Most of the user definable features of Perl are enabled or disabled in -[.VMS]CONFIG.VMS. There is code in there to Do The Right Thing, but that -may end up being the wrong thing for you. Make sure you understand what -you are doing since inappropriate changes to CONFIG.VMS can render perl -unbuildable. - -Odds are that there's nothing here to change, unless you're on a version of -VMS later than 6.2 and DEC C later than 5.6. Even if you are, the correct -values will still be chosen, most likely. Poking around here should be -unnecessary. +configure.com, which processes the hints file config_h.SH. There is +code in there to Do The Right Thing, but that may end up being the +wrong thing for you. Make sure you understand what you are doing since +inappropriate changes to configure.com or config_h.SH can render perl +unbuildable; odds are that there's nothing in there you'll need to +change. The one exception is the various *DIR install locations. Changing those requires changes in genconfig.pl as well. Be really careful if you need to @@ -441,7 +436,7 @@ You'll need CMKRNL privilege to install the new dcltables.exe. On systems that are using perl quite a bit, and particularly those with minimal RAM, you can boost the performance of perl by INSTALLing it as -a known image. PERLSHR.EXE is typically larger than 2500 blocks +a known image. PERLSHR.EXE is typically larger than 3000 blocks and that is a reasonably large amount of IO to load each time perl is invoked. @@ -550,7 +545,7 @@ though the call specified that the change should not persist after Perl exited. This is fixed by DEC CSC patch ALPACRT04_061 or later. See also: - http://ftp.service.compaq.com/patches/.new/openvms.html + http://ftp.service.compaq.com/patches/.new/openvms.shtml =back @@ -565,7 +560,6 @@ of source code modification to work again. http://slacvx.slac.stanford.edu/HELP/GCC http://www.progis.de/ - http://vms.gnu.org/ http://www.lp.se/products/gnu.html =head1 Mailing Lists @@ -592,13 +586,13 @@ Vmsperl pages on the web include: http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl/index.html http://www.crinoid.com/ http://duphy4.physics.drexel.edu/pub/cgi_info.htmlx - http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/VMS/ + http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/VMS/ http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/vmsperl/ - http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/htbin/software_list.cgi http://www.best.com/~pvhp/vms/ - http://bkfug.kfunigraz.ac.at/~binder/perl.html + http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~binder/perl.html http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=vmsperl http://archive.develooper.com/vmsperl@perl.org/ + http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws_modperl.html =head1 SEE ALSO @@ -609,7 +603,7 @@ of extending vmsperl with CPAN modules after Perl has been installed. =head1 AUTHORS -Revised 5-April-2001 by Craig Berry craigberry@mac.com. +Revised 10-October-2001 by Craig Berry craigberry@mac.com. Revised 25-February-2000 by Peter Prymmer pvhp@best.com. Revised 27-October-1999 by Craig Berry craigberry@mac.com. Revised 01-March-1999 by Dan Sugalski dan@sidhe.org. |