RISC DISC 2/RISC_DISC_2.iso/pd_share/utilities/cli/perl/!Perl/!Help

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Perl 5
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This is RISC OS version 1.00 of Larry Wall's Perl based on the source for
Perl 5.001. It appears to be working reasonably well, though there is plenty
of scope for improvement and Acorn specific additions. It has been compiled
using !UnixLib (3.6e) and hasn't had much else done to it at all, so it may
be a bit of a loose cannon in that respect because by no means everything
has been tested. As many unix functions have been left in as possible
to facilitate the use of existing scripts without too much alteration.
The standard manual files have been included. They are in html format so use
!webster or a similar program to read them.

I'm sorry the distribution is a bit rough at the moment, but I've not got a
lot of time to spare (witness the deliberately tacky icons). I've had quite a
lot of email asking about the port so the best thing seems to be to release
it and let you all try it out. Then we can decide where to go from there
based on what people want. Hopefully most perl users should know what they're
up to from the start so the lack of documentation won't be too much of a
problem. If you run into trouble I'll be pleased to answer any queries.

Note that the executable is quite large ( >500K) so give it plenty of
memory - ie. 1Mb or so and even more if you're running it under the
debugger or interactively (perl -de 0). You may want to alter the
setup in the boot file too to increase the wimpslot for when it's run
in a task window.

The next release should be more robust, once we've had a few suggestions and bug
reports. Hopefully Perl5.002 will be out by then too.

All the Best,

Luke.

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