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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
December 30, 2004 00:32
Subject:
Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06
Message ID:
20041230093145.2B7E.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Wed 29 Dec 2004 19:49, PPrymmer@factset.com wrote:
> "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.

The proza below smells like valid information for inclusion in README.vms

> 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 Prymmer
> 
> 

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