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

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <p761na-7c3.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>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.

This isn't a *nixy system; it's a VMSy system. ;)


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