vsiftp.vmssoftware.com/[e-mail]/FREEWARE/FREEWARE40.ZIP/perl5/freeware_readme.txt

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+OpenVMS PERL, Languages, Scripting LanguageI. Summary:N    This is a port of PERL5 to VMS.  It contains all the information and filesEthat are required to build PERL5 on OpenVMS VAX and AXP systems.  TheNreadme.vms file in the [.perl5_000] directory that is unpacked explains how toIstart building the tool.  It also provides pointers to the people who areLactively porting PERL5 to VMS, and you can get on their distribution list ifLyou desire.  The zip file also contains the freeware license statement as itapplies to Perl5.1II. Unpacking Perl once it is on your VMS system:@        1. Perl comes in a ZIP file.  Define a foreign symbol to(           point to your ZIP executable.4                uzip :== $ TOOLS$:[ZIP]vmsunzip.exe;C        2. Simply use the following command to unpack the zip file,        +                $ uzip -x your_zip_file.zip(        3. TROUBLE SHOOTING the ZIP fileA                a. Sometimes the unzip image that we have for VMSD                   will not understand a file format (or something).I                   The UNZIP simply stops with an error.  If this happensC                   with the freeware ZIP image, the following steps)                   will help you recover.                   D                b. Note the last file 'Inflated', it was successful.9                   Now get a directory of the files using,                        uzip -v zip_file.zipC                c. Look for the filename of the last file that was @                   successfully unpacked before the uzip failed.C                d. Now look at the very next file(s) in the listingO                   and manually uzip the next file (or several following files)/                   then retry the next command.A                e. Now you should be able to run uzip as follows:2                        uzip -xn your_zip_file.zipC                f. This will unpack your zip file and not overwriteB                   existing files.  Since you unpacked the problemG                   files, unzip should progress to the end of the file.G                   If not, manually unpack the next file after the last>                   successful file and try this command again.M                f1. Don't ask me why, but this even fails sometimes no matterH                    how many files you correctly unpack!  This sequence K                    eventually got the whole thing unpacked after numerous                     errors.,                        uzip -u the_zip file,                        uzip -o the_zip_file.                        uzip -xno the_zip_fileO                    Now, the -o produces a command line warning that it can notP                    be specified with  -n, BUT BUT BUT, the whole thing unpackedO                    without output statements.  I couldn't believe it!  Must be7                    a weird zip image that I have used.L                    Note that the zip image that I used may be old or buggy N                    and if you simply make enough contortions when calling theI                    program to unzip your file, it will hiccup the right M                    behavior. See the bizarre sequence above as example of a +                    contortion!  Oh well...G                g. This is how to get through an unzip that has errors.F                   We probably need a later version of unzip that can G                   read these newer file types and data, or one that isJ                   compatible with the ZIP program used by the Perl folks.