Re: [perl #131057] Perl on EBCDIC platform

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:33 PM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Recent versions of perldoc perlebcdic suggest that perl is once again a
> practical proposition on EBCDIC platforms.
>
> Some years ago I attempted to fulfil a CPAN RT request to add EBCDIC
> support to Net::DNS.  This took such a long time to achieve that the
> requester had by then disappeared.
>
> The wreckage of that attempt is still present, although untested on real
> hardware.  There is little point in it remaining there unless it works.
>
> Please can you put me in touch with the owner such a beast who may be
> willing to run the installation tests.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Dick Franks
> ________________________
>

Those are not the kind of beasts that I own, but I'm cc'ing the
perl-mvs list as such folks are somewhat more likely to be found there
than on p5p.