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From: bailey@genetics.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey)
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Subject: Re: Perl for the Alpha?
Date: 21 Apr 95 19:09:21 EDT
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In article <1995Apr21.132136.16222@alw.nih.gov>, systex@BALROG.NCI.NIH.GOV (Donald G. Plugge, Systex Inc., (301)210-7701) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know of an FTP site where I can get Perl for the Alpha running
> OpenVMS 6.1?

Perl 5 compiles and runs under VMS out of the box.  The current release is
5.001 (with a few postrelease patches); 5.002 is due out RSN.  I've got a kit
up for anon ftp at ftp://genetics.upenn.edu/perl5/perl5_001_yymmddx.zip
(yymmddx is 950419a at the moment) which has the post-5.001 bugfixes, as well
as several minor VMS fixes headed into 5.002, already applied.  It builds and
runs clean for me under VMS/VAX 5.5-2+VAXC 3.2 and VMS/AXP 6.0+DECC 4.0. 

                    Regards,
                    Charles Bailey
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