On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Tim Scott wrote:
> Peter / Craig,
>
> So, far example, the DBD::Oracle I have (DBD-Oracle-1.06, which I can put in
> a folder named DBD-Oracle-1_06 ?) contains an Oracle.ex folder. Should this
> become [.oracle.ex] (two levels) or [.oracle_ex] ?
It looks to me like you do not need to worry about it. Here for example
is me unpacking that very distribution:
$ directory/size/date DBD-ORACLE-1_06.TGZ
Directory DKB100:[000000]
DBD-ORACLE-1_06.TGZ;1
296 20-MAR-2001 15:40:13.00
Total of 1 file, 296 blocks.
$ gunzip DBD-ORACLE-1_06.TGZ
$ tar -xvf DBD-ORACLE-1_06.TAR
[DBD-ORACLE-1_06]
Jul 13 22:21:45 2000 1240 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]TODO
Jul 13 22:42:02 2000 662 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]MANIFEST
Jul 13 22:42:17 2000 43934 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]OCI8.C
May 2 21:27:11 2000 2402 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]ORACLE.H
May 2 21:27:08 2000 62260 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]ORA_EXPLAIN.PL
[DBD-ORACLE-1_06.T]
May 2 21:27:11 2000 1159 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.T]REAUTH.T
May 2 21:29:59 2000 7533 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.T]PLSQL.T
May 2 21:27:10 2000 1865 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.T]GENERAL.T
May 2 21:27:15 2000 10680 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.T]LONG.T
Jul 13 22:42:27 2000 1092 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.T]BASE.T
May 2 21:22:41 2000 664 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.WINGCC
Jul 11 21:56:02 2000 2393 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]ORACLE.XS
[DBD-ORACLE-1_06.HINTS]
May 2 21:21:57 2000 4920 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.HINTS]SVR4.PL
Jul 14 21:52:10 2000 25698 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]CHANGES
Jul 14 21:52:11 2000 53721 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]DBDIMP.C
May 2 21:19:41 2000 7892 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.EXPLAIN
May 2 21:19:30 2000 1880 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.WIN32
Jul 11 22:14:32 2000 9285 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]DBDIMP.H
[DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]
May 2 21:27:13 2000 1264 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]JAPH
May 2 21:27:15 2000 1283 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]EX.PL
May 2 21:27:12 2000 4524 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]PROC.PL
May 2 21:27:12 2000 1208 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]ORADUMP.PL
May 2 21:26:59 2000 1061 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]BIND.PL
May 2 21:27:10 2000 1426 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]COMMIT.PL
May 2 21:27:17 2000 2475 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]MKTABLE.PL
May 2 21:26:58 2000 7336 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]SQL
May 2 21:27:09 2000 1838 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]TABINFO.PL
May 2 21:27:09 2000 1688 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX]README
May 2 21:21:58 2000 2559 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.LONGS
May 2 21:33:13 2000 10007 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README
May 2 21:24:40 2000 17586 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]OCI7.C
May 2 21:29:55 2000 4963 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.SEC
May 2 21:22:44 2000 13068 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]TEST.PL
May 2 21:11:02 2000 119 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.LOGIN
May 2 21:10:58 2000 1292 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]ORAPERL.PH
Jul 13 22:42:22 2000 37612 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]MAKEFILE.PL
May 2 21:21:56 2000 27635 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]ORAPERL.PM
May 2 21:22:42 2000 5743 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]OCI.DEF
Jul 14 21:52:14 2000 35681 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]ORACLE.PM
May 2 21:30:30 2000 15497 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.HELP
Jul 13 22:42:25 2000 7636 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.JAVA
Jul 13 22:42:26 2000 11111 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]OCITRACE.H
May 2 21:20:59 2000 12081 [DBD-ORACLE-1_06]README.CLIENTS
Hence it appears the VMSTAR chose to rename the DBD-Oracle-1.06/Oracle.ex/
directory to [.DBD-ORACLE-1_06.ORACLE_EX] without my needing to tell it
to do that - it simply happened as a part of the -x extraction process
(By the way, -x is equivalent to TAR/EXTRACT, -v is equivalent to
TAR/VERBOSE). If you want to examine the content of the tar archive on
VMS then use the command:
tar -tvf tarfile.tar
Peter Prymmer
