At 8:41 PM +0530 9/26/06, Prabhu, Anantha (STSD) wrote: >SYS$SYSDEVICE:[HOME.LTT.perl.perl-5^.8^.6]pp_pack.c;1 > > aulong = PerlSock_ntohl(aulong); >.................................^ >%CC-I-IMPLICITFUNC, In this statement, the identifier "my_ntohl" is >implicitly declared as a function. >at line number 1301 in file >SYS$SYSDEVICE:[HOME.LTT.perl.perl-5^.8^.6]pp_pack.c;1
>From README.vms in the Perl distribution (which unfortunately you can't read >until you've already unpacked the archive): =head1 Unpacking the Perl source code You may need to set up a foreign symbol for the unpacking utility of choice. If you unpack a perl source kit with a name containing multiple periods on an ODS-5 volume using recent versions of vmstar (e.g. V3.4 or later) you may need to be especially careful in unpacking the tape archive file. Try to use the ODS-2 compatability qualifiers such as: vmstar /extract/verbose/ods2 perl-V^.VIII^.III.tar or: vmstar -xvof perl-5^.8^.3.tar If you neglected to use the /ODS2 qualifier or the -o switch then you could rename the source directory: set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.8^.3.dir rename perl-5^.8^.3.dir perl-5_8_3.dir Perl on VMS as of 5.8.3 does not completely handle extended file parse styles such as are encountered on ODS-5. While it can be built, installed, and run on ODS-5 filesystems; it may encounter trouble with characters that are otherwise illegal on ODS-2 volumes (notably the ^. escaped period sequence). -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser