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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 > > -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.5, & 5.9.x, and 809 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, AIX 5.2, SuSE 9.1, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/daily-build@perl.org/ perl-qa@perl.org send smoke reports to: smokers-reports@perl.org, QA: http://qa.perl.org