Re: [PATCH perl@7065] another VMS my_fwrite() fix for Storable

Charles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig, IIRC there were some mods to my_fwrite in my "socket i/o" patch > for Perl 5.6.0.You might want to see if we can get our i/o system > fixed up for both binary and socket data. I put a version of this in the vmsperl branch (IIRC); I'll recheck w

Re: [PATCH perl@7065] another VMS my_fwrite() fix for Storable

> - end = (char *)src + itmsz * nitm; > + _ckvmssts_noperl(lib$get_vm( &bufsize, &data )); [ ... ] > + if (data) _ckvmssts_noperl(lib$free_vm( &bufsize, &data )); > + return retval; Since this routine's likely to get hit pretty hard, there might be some mileage in allocating a big buffer an

Re: freeware CD deadline

Craig A. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The pipe code is in 5.7.0, which will be the basis for 5.6.1. That plus a OK, thanks; I'm way out of sync. I should be able to get at the repository again in a few days; do you know whether the fixes I'd already incorporated into the vmsperl branc

Re: freeware CD deadline

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 02:45 PM 9/26/00 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >>>Plus it's been built with binary compatibility in mind. (It's got a >>>stable major/minor image ID) That means we might be able to distribute >>>PCSI kits of prebuilt modules for people who don't have a

Re: freeware CD deadline

At 02:45 PM 9/26/00 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >>Plus it's been built with binary compatibility in mind. (It's got a >>stable major/minor image ID) That means we might be able to distribute >>PCSI kits of prebuilt modules for people who don't have a C compiler. > >Is this something that's now

Re: freeware CD deadline

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote: > I'm pretty sure Peter Prymmer has built 5.7.0 -- and thus the pipe code -- > on VAX, and I believe it survived the test suite pretty well. Yes that is true. The VAX setup was: DEC C V5.3-006 on OpenVMS VAX V6.2 and the test results were simila

Re: freeware CD deadline

At 12:38 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote: >On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Plus it's been built with binary compatibility in mind. (It's got a stable > > major/minor image ID) That means we might be able to distribute PCSI kits > > of prebuilt modules for people who don't have a

Re: freeware CD deadline

At 12:38 PM 9/26/2000 -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote: >Hmm... I thought that the hobbyist program license included PAKS for >things like DEC C. Is this not the case? (I may be commisioning a >hobbyist Alphastation soon and I'd like to be able to offer perl hacking >as part of the package). Yes, the

Re: freeware CD deadline

At 02:30 PM 9/26/2000 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >I'd skip 5.6.0 as well, and stick with 5.005_03. Heck, I'd say use the PCSI kit >they're distributing, if they can build us a version that doesn't spit out my home >directory every time the thing pitches a fit... :) It's got a bunch of little fi

Re: freeware CD deadline

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I'd skip 5.6.0 as well, and stick with 5.005_03. Heck, I'd say use the PCSI > kit they're distributing, if they can build us a version that doesn't spit > out my home directory every time the thing pitches a fit... :) It's got a > bunch of little fi

Re: freeware CD deadline

At 01:06 PM 9/26/2000 -0400, Charles Bailey wrote: >Craig A. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> contains Perl 5.003. I'm sure we can do better than that, but how much better? >> The PCSI kit available from Compaq is based on 5.5_003 and would be better than >> this, but that seems a bit dat

Re: freeware CD deadline

At 03:04 PM 9/25/00 -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote: >On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote: > > > The call has gone out for ocntributions to v5 of the VMS freeware CD: > > > > > > > > > > and the deadline is

RE: new VMS::FindFile perl module

At 10:15 AM 9/23/00 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >>My only comment is in response to your comment, in findfile.xs: >> >>if (status == RMS$_NMF) { >> resultant[0] = '\0'; >>} else if (!(status & 1)) { >> /* UNEXPECTED ERROR: What do we really want to do here? */ >> return;

Re: freeware CD deadline

Craig A. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > contains Perl 5.003. I'm sure we can do better than that, but how much better? > The PCSI kit available from Compaq is based on 5.5_003 and would be better than > this, but that seems a bit dated now as well. Does anyone know whether 5.6.1 > is exp

RE: Tree-based XML parser

Hi David, I haven't read perlembed yet, and I've never embed anything. Perl is implemented with a large shareable image (perlshr.exe), so it should be "a piece cake" as the russians used to say... Keep us posted on your progress, this sounds really like the right stuff... VMS and perl! Don't yo

Re: Tree-based XML parser

In article , [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > According to the perl documentation, there are many ways to accomplish > this. I've read the "perlembed" documentation and am all fired up to > give it a try... Does anyone have any particular advice for the unwary >

Re: Tree-based XML parser

Craig: Hi. Thanks for the information. The type of document we are parsing are FpML messages, which are highly structured and very small documents representing financial transactions (only 1 per document). The data is nested very, very deeply and callbacks must de