Re: perl for VMS 7.3-2 on VAX (or rather the SIMH)

> On Jul 3, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> I am currently playing with this on a Hobbyist license and wonder now =
if
> there is a perl kit (any version, really).
>=20

A pedantic point, but there is no such thing as VMS v7.3-2 on VAX.  v7.3 =
was the terminal release on VAX and v7.3-2 was Alpha only.

For Perl versions up through 5.22, there is latent support for building =
on VAX but I haven=E2=80=99t tried it in at least a couple years.  There =
are so many essential features missing from VAX that it=E2=80=99s just =
not worth the trouble.

There are some ancient binary kits of Perl for VAX at =
<http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl/prebuilt.html>.

If you want to run more current software, my advice is to get away from =
VAX and run an Alpha emulator.  There are free ones but no complete open =
source ones that I=E2=80=99m aware of.

________________________________________
Craig A. Berry
mailto:[email protected]

"... getting out of a sonnet is much more
 difficult than getting in."
                 Brad Leithauser