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"Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com> wrote on 12/29/2004 01:09:58 PM: > 4.) The following macro is defined and is used in the shdist target: > > SHAR = vms_share > > There is no such native command as vms_share. If I knew more about the > intention, I might be able to suggest an alternative. shar on unix was an old time sh(ell) ar(chive) file shareing format that turned a binary into a self extracting shell script. IIRC it used something analogous to uuencoding to keep the shell script into an emailable text format. There was an analog for VMS that would turn binaries into self extracting DCL text files (it called into TPU when needed). While I doubt that: make shdist or: mmk shdist is often used nowadays to prepare somehting for upload to CPAN, I suspect that removing it might adversely affect folks that have to email perl module distributions along 7 bit email relays (admittedly there may not be that many left). I'd not recommend getting rid of the SHAR macro unless it is currently hurting something else. I note that Charles Bailey has a copy of VMS-DCLsym on CPAN in DCL share format, see for example: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/CBAIL/VMS-DCLsym-1_0.share The comments within that file mention the utility used: Using: VMS_SHARE 8.5-1, (C) 1993 Andy Harper, Kings College London UK James Gray, Michael Bednarek It appears that current locations for VMS_SHARE kits include: http://www.tmk.com/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms_share/ http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?VMS_SHARE Peter PrymmerThread Previous | Thread Next