[Info-vax] PERL for OpenVMS Alpha that will install on V8.4

[Paul Sture]

VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <1bjuma-l04.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>>> WTF???  Works fine on my systems; on the client's systems:
>>>
>>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>>>         (possibly more locale environment variables)
>>>         LANG = "LANG.DAT"
>>
>>here on three different systems:
>>
>>echo $LANG
>>en_GB.UTF-8
>>----
>>echo $LANG
>>de_CH.UTF-8
>>----
>>echo $LANG
>>en_US.UTF-8
>>
>
> This site has LANG defined systemwide for another product.  It seems that
> it is used also used in "C" born products and libraries too.  Why these are
> not C$blah is beyond me.  However, I was able to get past the "LANG" using
> $ DEFINE LC_ALL "C"

OK,  but be careful about using LC_ALL on *nixy systems.  The last time
I did my first ssh into a shiny new account it propagated the local
value of LC_ALL into the new account and the account first time use
script complained bitterly because that locale wasn't installed on that
system.

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Paul Sture