At 5:21 PM +0100 10/11/07, Andy Armstrong wrote: >Ah cool, thanks - plenty to look at there :) > >I have an HP TestDrive account. How difficult is it to run the tests? It'd be >good to be able to run them without bothering you.
They have 5.8.6 on the testdrive, so you shouldn't have to build your own perl to test modules. You should be able to ftp, gunzip, and tar -xvf more or less as you would anywhere. Instead of C<cd> you have C<set default> and C<show default>. Instead of C<make> you have C<mms>. You can enter C<unix vms translation> into Google and find lots of command references for further navigation. You can type C<bash> and get into a familiar shell for navigation and file manipulation, but I'm not sure the Perl port will function very well in that environment. Last but not least, to log off type C<logout> or C<eoj> (for end-of-job). But the real difficulty will come in debugging what's wrong. There were two major types of failures that I noticed. One had to do with exit codes. You may need to look into C<use vmsish 'exit'> and/or C<use vmsish 'status'>. The other problem was with tests appearing in the wrong order. There is probably some subtle and nasty difference about how redirection through pipes is handled. Not sure what to suggest there. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
