I just noted that the freeware cd URLs had fallen out of date.
I was wondering if anyone on this list had any other material to
contribute. Should we document `@configure "-Dtry_cxx"` for intrepid
hackers? I suspect that "-Duse_devel" should _not_ be documented...
Anything else?
--- README.vms.orig Sun Oct 22 11:35:15 2000
+++ README.vms Fri Dec 1 11:27:55 2000
@@ -87,22 +87,24 @@
=item 1 GUNZIP/GZIP.EXE for VMS
A de-compressor for *.gz and *.tgz files available from a number
-of web/ftp sites.
+of web/ftp sites and is distributed on the OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM
+from Compaq.
http://www.fsf.org/order/ftp.html
ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu/diffutils*.tar.gz
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU/diffutils*.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils*.tar.gz
- http://www.openvms.digital.com/cd/GZIP/
+ http://www.openvms.digital.com/freeware/GZIP/
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/VMS/
=item 2 VMS TAR
For reading and writing unix tape archives (*.tar files). Vmstar is also
-available from a number of web/ftp sites.
+available from a number of web/ftp sites and is distributed on the OpenVMS
+Freeware CD-ROM from Compaq.
ftp://ftp.lp.se/vms/
- http://www.openvms.digital.com/cd/VMSTAR/
+ http://www.openvms.digital.com/freeware/VMSTAR/
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/VMS/
=item 3 UNZIP.EXE for VMS
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@
Unzip is available from a number of web/ftp sites.
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/UnZip.html
- http://www.openvms.digital.com/cd/INFO-ZIP/
+ http://www.openvms.digital.com/freeware/INFO-ZIP/
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/VMS/
ftp://ftp.openvms.digital.com/
ftp://ftp.madgoat.com/madgoat/
@@ -131,10 +133,10 @@
Please note that UNZIP and GUNZIP are not the same thing (they work with
different formats). Many of the useful files from CPAN (the Comprehensive
-Perl Archive Network) are in *.tar.gz format (this includes copies of the
-source code for perl as well as modules and scripts that you may wish to
-add later) hence you probably want to have GUNZIP.EXE and VMSTAR.EXE on
-your VMS machine.
+Perl Archive Network) are in *.tar.gz or *.tgz format (this includes copies
+of the source code for perl as well as modules and scripts that you may
+wish to add later) hence you probably want to have GUNZIP.EXE and
+VMSTAR.EXE on your VMS machine.
If you want to include socket support, you'll need a TCP/IP stack and either
DEC C, or socket libraries. See the "Socket Support (optional)" topic
End of "Patch"
Peter Prymmer
