You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is
B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the latest versions
-of the following packages from the Aminet archives (http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/):
+of the following packages from the Aminet archives
+( http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/ ):
ixemul-bin
ixemul-env-bin
perl and epocemx runs on Epoc Release 5 machines: Psion 5mx, 5mx Pro,
Psion Revo, Psion Netbook and on the Ericson M128. It may run on Epoc
Release 3 Hardware (Series 5 classic), too. For more information about
-this hardware please refer to http://www.psion.com.
+this hardware please refer to http://www.psion.com/
Vendors which like to have support for their devices are free to send
me a sample.
=head1 INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
You can download a ready-to-install version from
-http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl.
+http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl/
You will need at least ~6MB free space in order to install and run
perl.
running VOS Release 14.3.0 or later, download Perl from
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/ga.html. Instructions for
unbundling the Perl distribution file are at
-ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html.
+ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html
If you are running VOS Release 14.4.1 or later, you can obtain a
pre-compiled, supported copy of perl by purchasing Release 2.0.1
Locator (URL)
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/alpha/posix.save.evf.gz from
your web browser. Instructions for unbundling this file
-are at ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html.
+are at ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html
This is not a standard Stratus product.
In VOS Release 14.3.0, the generally-available version of
Note that suidperl is neither built nor installed by default in
any recent version of perl. Use of suidperl is highly discouraged.
If you think you need it, try alternatives such as sudo first.
-See http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/.
+See http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ .
=head2 Core bug fixes
completely removed from future releases. In any case, suidperl should
only be used by security experts who know exactly what they are doing
and why they are using suidperl instead of some other solution such as
-sudo (see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/).
+sudo ( see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ ).
=head1 Incompatible Changes
to continue to be supported, it may be completely removed from future
releases. In any case, suidperl should only be used by security
experts who know exactly what they are doing and why they are using
-suidperl instead of some other solution such as sudo (see
-http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/).
+suidperl instead of some other solution such as sudo
+( see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ ).
=head1 Incompatible Changes
=item *
The Unicode Character Database coming with Perl has been upgraded
-to Unicode 3.1. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/,
+to Unicode 3.1. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/ ,
and http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/
For developers interested in enhancing Perl's Unicode capabilities:
Math::BigFloat has undergone much fixing, and in addition the fmod()
function now supports modulus operations.
-(The fixed Math::BigFloat module is also available in CPAN for those
-who can't upgrade their Perl: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JP/JPEACOCK/)
+( The fixed Math::BigFloat module is also available in CPAN for those
+who can't upgrade their Perl: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JP/JPEACOCK/ )
=item *
=item *
The Unicode Character Database coming with Perl has been upgraded
-to Unicode 3.1.1. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/.
+to Unicode 3.1.1. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/ .
=item *
probably going to be removed in Perl 5.10. In any case, suidperl
should only be used by security experts who know exactly what they are
doing and why they are using suidperl instead of some other solution
-such as sudo (see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/).
+such as sudo ( see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ ).
=head1 New Tests
are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to
producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for
money. You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at
-http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
+http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
and http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/
or the news gateway nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or
its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters ,
-or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq,
+or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq ,
or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending
perl5-porters-request@perl.org a subscription request
(an empty message with no subject is fine).
There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at
nntp://nntp.perl.org, or a web interface to the same lists at
http://nntp.perl.org/group/. Other groups are listed at
-http://lists.perl.org.
+http://lists.perl.org/
=head2 Where should I post source code?
To get the best performance, pick a site from
the list below and use it to grab the complete list of mirror sites
-which is at /CPAN/MIRRORED.BY or at http://mirror.cpan.org/.
+which is at /CPAN/MIRRORED.BY or at http://mirror.cpan.org/
From there you can find the quickest site for you. Remember, the
following list is I<not> the complete list of CPAN mirrors
(the complete list contains 165 sites as of January 2001):
mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for
subscription information.
- http://lists.cpan.org/
+ http://lists.cpan.org/
=head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
The a2ps http://www-inf.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/black+white.ps.gz does
lots of things related to generating nicely printed output of
-documents, as does enscript at http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/.
+documents, as does enscript at http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/
=head2 Is there a ctags for Perl?
debugger and remote debugging
(http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/Komodo/index.html). (Visual
Perl, a Visual Studio.NET plug-in is currently (early 2001) in beta
-(http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/VisualPerl/index.html)).
+( http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/VisualPerl/index.html )).
=item The Object System
If you are using MacOS, the same concerns apply. MacPerl
(for Classic environments) comes with a simple editor.
-Popular external editors are BBEdit (http://www.bbedit.com)
-or Alpha (http://alpha.olm.net/). MacOS X users can use Unix
+Popular external editors are BBEdit ( http://www.bbedit.com/ )
+or Alpha ( http://alpha.olm.net/ ). MacOS X users can use Unix
editors as well.
=over 4
=back
For vi lovers in general, Windows or elsewhere:
-http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html.
+http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html
nvi (http://www.bostic.com/vi/, available from CPAN in src/misc/) is
yet another vi clone, unfortunately not available for Windows, but in
=item Bash
-from the Cygwin package (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/)
+from the Cygwin package ( http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ )
=item Ksh
from the MKS Toolkit (http://www.mks.com/), or the Bourne shell of
-the U/WIN environment (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/)
+the U/WIN environment ( http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/ )
=item Tcsh
=item BBEdit and BBEdit Lite
are text editors for Mac OS that have a Perl sensitivity mode
-(http://web.barebones.com/).
+( http://web.barebones.com/ ).
=item Alpha
is an editor, written and extensible in Tcl, that nonetheless has
built in support for several popular markup and programming languages
-including Perl and HTML (http://alpha.olm.net/).
+including Perl and HTML ( http://alpha.olm.net/ ).
=back
Pepper and Pe are programming language sensitive text editors for Mac
-OS X and BeOS respectively (http://www.hekkelman.com/).
+OS X and BeOS respectively ( http://www.hekkelman.com/ ).
=head2 Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
see http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/toms.exrc.gz ,
the standard benchmark file for vi emulators. The file runs best with nvi,
the current version of vi out of Berkeley, which incidentally can be built
-with an embedded Perl interpreter--see http://www.cpan.org/src/misc.
+with an embedded Perl interpreter--see http://www.cpan.org/src/misc/
=head2 Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
The Curses module from CPAN provides a dynamically loadable object
module interface to a curses library. A small demo can be found at the
-directory http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/rep;
+directory http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/rep ;
this program repeats a command and updates the screen as needed, rendering
B<rep ps axu> similar to B<top>.
to Perl, and has its own FAQs and tutorials, and usenet group,
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
-The original CGI specification is at: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
+The original CGI specification is at: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
-Current best-practice RFC draft at: http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/
+Current best-practice RFC draft at: http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/
Other relevant documentation listed in: http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html
C</^[\w.-]+\@(?:[\w-]+\.)+\w+$/>. It's a very bad idea. However,
this also throws out many valid ones, and says nothing about
potential deliverability, so it is not suggested. Instead, see
-http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/ckaddr.gz,
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/ckaddr.gz ,
which actually checks against the full RFC spec (except for nested
comments), looks for addresses you may not wish to accept mail to
(say, Bill Clinton or your postmaster), and then makes sure that the
available to the LAN and sync the other machines against this
directory.
-From http://rsync.samba.org/README.html:
+From http://rsync.samba.org/README.html :
"Rsync uses rsh or ssh for communication. It does not need to be
setuid and requires no special privileges for installation. It
You might also want to look at Gisle Aas's illustrated perlguts -
there's no guarantee that this will be absolutely up-to-date with the
latest documentation in the Perl core, but the fundamentals will be
-right. (http://gisle.aas.no/perl/illguts/)
+right. ( http://gisle.aas.no/perl/illguts/ )
=item L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>
Decompress the file with C<gzip -d yourmodule.tar.gz>
-You can get gzip from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu.
+You can get gzip from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
Or, you can combine this step with the next to save disk space:
If it does, life is now officially tough for you, because you have to
compile the module yourself -- no easy feat on Windows. You'll need
the C<nmake> utility, available at
-ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe.
+ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe
D. INSTALL
If a module does not work on MacPerl but should, or needs to be
compiled, see if the module exists already as a port on the
-MacPerl Module Porters site (http://pudge.net/mmp/).
+MacPerl Module Porters site ( http://pudge.net/mmp/ ).
For more information on doing XS with MacPerl yourself, see
-Arved Sandstrom's XS tutorial (http://macperl.com/depts/Tutorials/),
+Arved Sandstrom's XS tutorial ( http://macperl.com/depts/Tutorials/ ),
and then consider uploading your binary to the CPAN and
registering it on the MMP site.
The BUILD and INSTALL steps are identical to those for Unix. Some
modules generate Makefiles that work better with GNU make, which is
-available from http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm.
+available from http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/
=back
replicated trove of Perl materials, including documentation, style
guides, tricks and traps, alternate ports to non-Unix systems and
occasional binary distributions for these. Search engines for
-CPAN can be found at http://www.cpan.org/.
+CPAN can be found at http://www.cpan.org/
Most importantly, CPAN includes around a thousand unbundled modules,
some of which require a C compiler to build. Major categories of
replicated trove of Perl materials, including documentation, style
guides, tricks and traps, alternate ports to non-Unix systems and
occasional binary distributions for these. Search engines for
-CPAN can be found at http://www.cpan.org/.
+CPAN can be found at http://www.cpan.org/
Most importantly, CPAN includes around a thousand unbundled modules,
some of which require a C compiler to build. Major categories of
Netware
The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
-binaries available via http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html:
+binaries available via http://www.cpan.org/ports/
Perl release
=head2 man for perl
-See the Perl Power Tools. (http://language.perl.com/ppt/)
+See the Perl Power Tools. ( http://language.perl.com/ppt/ )
=head2 my $Package::variable
in the scope of C<use English>. For that reason, saying C<use
English> in libraries is strongly discouraged. See the
Devel::SawAmpersand module documentation from CPAN
-(http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/)
+( http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/ )
for more information.
Having to even think about the C<$^S> variable in your exception
projects / platform / upstream / perl.git / commitdiff