# Note to archive managers: These Perl-4.036* files should probably
# live in /pub/next/sources/proglang and /pub/next/binaries/proglang.
# They supercede the current perl-4.036-FAT.tar.gz and
# perl-4.036-FAT.README files, which contain a version of perl with
# incomplete functionality.
#
# I'll post this README to c.s.n.announce in a day or so, if you
# accept this submission onto the archive.
# 
# Cheers,
#
# Matthew

      Perl 4.036 for NeXTSTEP 3.2

	Do you want to use Larry Wall's amazing and astonishingly
      useful Perl language on your NeXT box, but can't get the
      standard perl-4.036.tar.gz distribution to compile?  Even worse,
      you don't have the NeXT developer release, so you can't even
      contemplate compiling Perl?

	Well, your prayers may well be answered.  Take your pick from
      one of these three packages:

        Perl-4.036.NI.b.pkg.tar

        The perl and taintperl executables, together with the full
      perl library, man page and auxiliary programs (a2p, s2p,
      find2perl etc.) compiled FAT and packaged ready for
      Installer.app.  No compilation required.

         Perl-4.036-how-to-build-for-NS3.2.tar.gz

	 A small (11089 byte) set of instructions for building Perl
      under NS 3.2.  You will also need the standard source
      distribution of perl-4.036.tar.gz, available from your local Gnu
      archive, in order to build Perl.  Simply ungzip and untar on top
      of the standard distribution, and follow the instructions in the
      README.next file.

         Perl-4.036.NI.bs.tar.gz

	 The whole kit and caboodle --- the complete perl
      distribution, already configured, compiled and waiting to be
      installed.  Passes all of the 'make test' tests, and includes
      all of the files in Perl-4.036-how-to-build-for-NS3.2 as well.

          These packages are available for anonymous ftp from
      ftp.cs.orst.edu:

      ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/proglang/Perl-4.036.NI.b.pkg.tar
      ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/proglang/Perl-4.036-how-to-build-for-NS3.2.tar.gz
      ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/proglang/Perl-4.036.NI.bs.tar.gz

          Nb. this distribution supercedes the previous MAB compiled
      distribution for NS, ie. perl-4.036-FAT.tar.gz, which has
      incomplete functionality.  If either of the following tests
      *completely fail to do anything* with your installed perl, you
      probably have that distribution, and should replace it:

-------------------------
viriconium% ./perl -e 'print join (":", getpwuid(4)), "\n";'
uucp:*:4:4:0:::/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico

viriconium% ./perl -e 'print (-T STDIN ? "Ascii\n" : "Binary\n");' < ~/.login
Ascii

 	Matthew
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