Thanks for your kind response. I looked thru the mailing lists and tried to find one for Tru64 Unix, but didn't see one.
I've been a DEC user since 1978, RSTS/E and VMS, but just recently got to Tru64 Unix on Alpha and started learning Perl. The Perl version on our Unix machines is 5.00503. I'm wondering what the current version of Perl is that works on Tru64 Unix, and how to find and install it. I see the current non-bleeding edge version seems to be 5.6, with a lot of work being done on 6. 5.00503 has been great fun to learn and work with, but I see many features in the manuals that don't work, such as 'our' and the networking modules. Thanks for any hints and leads you may be able to give me. --Bob van Keuren Former DECUS groupie -----Original Message----- From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:44 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tru64 Perl (was RE: redirecting STDERR to STDOUT inside a program) At 3:12 PM -0800 1/6/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Does anyone happen to know how I can contact people working on Perl >on Tru64 Unix on Alphas? It depends on what you mean by "working on Perl." Since Tru64 is one of the major unices, its Perl version is not considered a port and I suspect there are very few wrinkles that differentiate it from Perl on other Unix variants. There are *lots* of mailing lists, from a special one for beginners to assorted special topics and the granddaddy list perl5-porters, which is where people who maintain the innards of the current version of Perl hang out (and some of them are Tru64 gurus as well). See <http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/> for a list of mailing lists and web access to postings. If you have a Perl question that pertains specifically to the Alpha architecture and/or Compaq C, I suspect folks here would be affable enough (or should I say alphable enough?) to appreciate that it's DEC-related if not VMS-related :-). -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
