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popular on many systems. See L<perlbook> for a number of good
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These are instructions for building Perl from source. Most
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people can simply download a pre-compiled distribution from the
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VOS anonymous FTP site. This version of Perl is not supported
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on VOS Release 14.2.0 or earlier releases. If you are running
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VOS Release 14.3.0 or later, download Perl from
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ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/ga.html. Instructions
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for unbundling the Perl distribution file are at
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These are instructions for building Perl from source. This version of
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Perl is not supported on VOS Release 14.2 or earlier releases. If you
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have a Continuum platform running VOS Release 14.3 through 14.7,
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download Perl from the Stratus Anonymous FTP site at
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ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/continuum/continuum.html. If
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you have a V Series platform running VOS Release 15.0 or later, or if
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you have a V Series platform running OpenVOS Release 17.0 or later,
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ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/v-series/v-series.html. The
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perl distribution files on the Stratus anonymous FTP site are stored
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in a format called a "bundled file". Instructions for unbundling the
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Perl distribution file are at
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ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html.
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If you are running VOS Release 14.4.1 or later, you can obtain a
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While there are currently no architecture-specific
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extensions or modules distributed with perl, the following
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directories can be used to hold such files:
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While there are currently no architecture-specific extensions or
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modules distributed with perl, the following directories can be
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used to hold such files (replace the string VERSION by the
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appropriate version number):
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>5.9.0>7100
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>5.9.0>8000
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>5.9.0>i786
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>7100
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>8000
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>i786
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two places. Put architecture-independent files into:
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.9.0
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION
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following directories:
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.9.0>7100
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.9.0>8000
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.9.0>i786
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>7100
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>8000
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>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>i786
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other floating-point computations that underflow or overflow
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will probably result in SIGFPE. Don't push your luck.
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As of VOS Release 14.7.0, the VOS POSIX runtime sets up the
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PA-RISC and IA-32 hardware floating-point status register so
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the PA-RISC and IA-32 hardware floating-point status register so
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that the overflow and underflow exceptions do not trap, but
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instead automatically convert the result to infinity or zero, as
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appropriate. As of this writing, there are still floating-point
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