From 0e7519cd0200632a466022f50769ea14f3d60602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 04:56:05 +0000 Subject: More advice. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14804 --- README.os390 | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.os390') diff --git a/README.os390 b/README.os390 index eaf8f4d4ce..94115f4be0 100644 --- a/README.os390 +++ b/README.os390 @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.1