| 1 | This document is written in pod format hence there are punctuation
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| 2 | characters in odd places. Do not worry, you've apparently got the
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| 3 | ASCII->EBCDIC translation worked out correctly. You can read more
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| 4 | about pod in pod/perlpod.pod or the short summary in the INSTALL file.
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| 5 |
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| 6 | =head1 NAME
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| 8 | README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS
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| 9 |
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| 10 | =head1 SYNOPSIS
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| 11 |
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| 12 | This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl
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| 13 | on OS/390 (aka z/OS) Unix System Services.
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| 15 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 17 | This is a fully ported Perl for OS/390 Version 2 Release 3, 5, 6, 7,
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| 18 | 8, and 9. It may work on other versions or releases, but those are
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| 19 | the ones we've tested it on.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | You may need to carry out some system configuration tasks before
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| 22 | running the Configure script for Perl.
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| 25 | =head2 Tools
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| 27 | The z/OS Unix Tools and Toys list may prove helpful and contains links
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| 28 | to ports of much of the software helpful for building Perl.
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| 29 | http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html
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| 32 | =head2 Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
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| 33 |
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| 34 | If using ftp remember to transfer the distribution in binary format.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | Gunzip/gzip for OS/390 is discussed at:
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| 37 |
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| 38 | http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/faq/bpxqp1.html
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| 39 |
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| 40 | to extract an ASCII tar archive on OS/390, try this:
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