| 1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
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| 2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see perlpod manpage) which is
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| 3 | specially designed to be readable as is.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | =head1 NAME
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| 6 |
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| 7 | perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS
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| 10 |
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| 11 | One can read this document in the following formats:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | man perlos2
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| 14 | view perl perlos2
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| 15 | explorer perlos2.html
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| 16 | info perlos2
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| 17 |
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| 18 | to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may
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| 19 | be read I<as is>: either as F<README.os2>, or F<pod/perlos2.pod>.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | To read the F<.INF> version of documentation (B<very> recommended)
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| 22 | outside of OS/2, one needs an IBM's reader (may be available on IBM
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| 23 | ftp sites (?) (URL anyone?)) or shipped with PC DOS 7.0 and IBM's
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| 24 | Visual Age C++ 3.5.
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| 25 |
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| 26 | A copy of a Win* viewer is contained in the "Just add OS/2 Warp" package
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| 27 |
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| 28 | ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/tools/jaow/jaow.zip
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| 29 |
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| 30 | in F<?:\JUST_ADD\view.exe>. This gives one an access to EMX's
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| 31 | F<.INF> docs as well (text form is available in F</emx/doc> in
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| 32 | EMX's distribution). There is also a different viewer named xview.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | Note that if you have F<lynx.exe> or F<netscape.exe> installed, you can follow WWW links
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| 35 | from this document in F<.INF> format. If you have EMX docs installed
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| 36 | correctly, you can follow library links (you need to have C<view emxbook>
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| 37 | working by setting C<EMXBOOK> environment variable as it is described
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| 38 | in EMX docs).
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| 39 |
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| 40 | =cut
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| 41 |
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| 42 | Contents (This may be a little bit obsolete)
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| 43 |
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| 44 | perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | NAME
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| 47 | SYNOPSIS
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| 48 | DESCRIPTION
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| 49 | - Target
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| 50 | - Other OSes
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| 51 | - Prerequisites
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| 52 | - Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
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| 53 | - Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
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| 54 | Frequently asked questions
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| 55 | - "It does not work"
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| 56 | - I cannot run external programs
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| 57 | - I cannot embed perl into my program, or use perl.dll from my
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| 58 | - `` and pipe-open do not work under DOS.
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| 59 | - Cannot start find.exe "pattern" file
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| 60 | INSTALLATION
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| 61 | - Automatic binary installation
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| 62 | - Manual binary installation
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| 63 | - Warning
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| 64 | Accessing documentation
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| 65 | - OS/2 .INF file
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| 66 | - Plain text
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| 67 | - Manpages
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| 68 | - HTML
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| 69 | - GNU info files
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| 70 | - PDF files
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| 71 | - LaTeX docs
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| 72 | BUILD
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| 73 | - The short story
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| 74 | - Prerequisites
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| 75 | - Getting perl source
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| 76 | - Application of the patches
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| 77 | - Hand-editing
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| 78 | - Making
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| 79 | - Testing
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| 80 | - Installing the built perl
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| 81 | - a.out-style build
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| 82 | Build FAQ
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| 83 | - Some / became \ in pdksh.
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| 84 | - 'errno' - unresolved external
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| 85 | - Problems with tr or sed
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| 86 | - Some problem (forget which ;-)
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| 87 | - Library ... not found
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| 88 | - Segfault in make
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| 89 | - op/sprintf test failure
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| 90 | Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
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| 91 | - setpriority, getpriority
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| 92 | - system()
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| 93 | - extproc on the first line
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| 94 | - Additional modules:
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| 95 | - Prebuilt methods:
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| 96 | - Prebuilt variables:
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| 97 | - Misfeatures
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| 98 | - Modifications
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| 99 | - Identifying DLLs
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| 100 | - Centralized management of resources
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| 101 | Perl flavors
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| 102 | - perl.exe
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| 103 | - perl_.exe
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| 104 | - perl__.exe
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| 105 | - perl___.exe
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| 106 | - Why strange names?
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| 107 | - Why dynamic linking?
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| 108 | - Why chimera build?
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| 109 | ENVIRONMENT
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| 110 | - PERLLIB_PREFIX
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| 111 | - PERL_BADLANG
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| 112 | - PERL_BADFREE
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| 113 | - PERL_SH_DIR
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| 114 | - USE_PERL_FLOCK
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| 115 | - TMP or TEMP
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| 116 | Evolution
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| 117 | - Text-mode filehandles
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| 118 | - Priorities
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| 119 | - DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
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| 120 | - DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
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| 121 | - DLL forwarder generation
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| 122 | - Threading
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| 123 | - Calls to external programs
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| 124 | - Memory allocation
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| 125 | - Threads
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| 126 | BUGS
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| 127 | AUTHOR
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| 128 | SEE ALSO
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| 129 |
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