I think he probably wants a release of Perl (presumably VMS Perl) for the Alpha processor. A fairly recent binary release is available here:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware60/perl-5_8_1/perl-5_8_1.zip It's certainly not the latest, and there have been a number of improvements on this. I would recommend following John's instructions below and build a 5.8.5 from source, if possible. -Jordan Henderson "It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone." -Homer J. Simpson > -----Original Message----- > From: John Peacock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 7:08 AM > To: Black, Andrew > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Latest Alpha Perl > > Black, Andrew wrote: > > Hi > > Can someone point me to the latest stable Alpha release of Perl > > (pref a binary release) > > Your request is not possible; the Alpha releases are, by default, not > stable. > In addition, I don't believe anyone is building binaries of 5.9.x (the > development branch) for public consumption. That being said, if what you > want > is 5.8.5 (which is the latest stable release branch), you can always find > the > source here: > > http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html > > and I think you'll find that building from source is much improved. You > only > need the C compiler and mmk/mms. > > HTH > > John > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > 4720 Boston Way > Lanham, MD 20706 > 301-459-3366 x.5010 > fax 301-429-5747
