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- # Note to archive managers: These Perl-4.036* files should probably
- # live in /pub/next/sources/proglang and /pub/next/binaries/proglang.
- # They supercede the current perl-4.036-FAT.tar.gz and
- # perl-4.036-FAT.README files, which contain a version of perl with
- # incomplete functionality.
- #
- # I'll post this README to c.s.n.announce in a day or so, if you
- # accept this submission onto the archive.
- #
- # Cheers,
- #
- # Matthew
-
- Perl 4.036 for NeXTSTEP 3.2
-
- Do you want to use Larry Wall's amazing and astonishingly
- useful Perl language on your NeXT box, but can't get the
- standard perl-4.036.tar.gz distribution to compile? Even worse,
- you don't have the NeXT developer release, so you can't even
- contemplate compiling Perl?
-
- Well, your prayers may well be answered. Take your pick from
- one of these three packages:
-
- Perl-4.036.NI.b.pkg.tar
-
- The perl and taintperl executables, together with the full
- perl library, man page and auxiliary programs (a2p, s2p,
- find2perl etc.) compiled FAT and packaged ready for
- Installer.app. No compilation required.
-
- Perl-4.036-how-to-build-for-NS3.2.tar.gz
-
- A small (11089 byte) set of instructions for building Perl
- under NS 3.2. You will also need the standard source
- distribution of perl-4.036.tar.gz, available from your local Gnu
- archive, in order to build Perl. Simply ungzip and untar on top
- of the standard distribution, and follow the instructions in the
- README.next file.
-
- Perl-4.036.NI.bs.tar.gz
-
- The whole kit and caboodle --- the complete perl
- distribution, already configured, compiled and waiting to be
- installed. Passes all of the 'make test' tests, and includes
- all of the files in Perl-4.036-how-to-build-for-NS3.2 as well.
-
- These packages are available for anonymous ftp from
- ftp.cs.orst.edu:
-
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/proglang/Perl-4.036.NI.b.pkg.tar
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/proglang/Perl-4.036-how-to-build-for-NS3.2.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/proglang/Perl-4.036.NI.bs.tar.gz
-
- Nb. this distribution supercedes the previous MAB compiled
- distribution for NS, ie. perl-4.036-FAT.tar.gz, which has
- incomplete functionality. If either of the following tests
- *completely fail to do anything* with your installed perl, you
- probably have that distribution, and should replace it:
-
- -------------------------
- viriconium% ./perl -e 'print join (":", getpwuid(4)), "\n";'
- uucp:*:4:4:0:::/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico
-
- viriconium% ./perl -e 'print (-T STDIN ? "Ascii\n" : "Binary\n");' < ~/.login
- Ascii
-
- Matthew
- --
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