Some Utilities for VMS

Patch and Diff

Here they are, at long last! Hacked to work on VMS, tons of bugs and misfeatures tracked down and fixed, Alpha and VAX object files precompiled (on VMS6.2) for your ease of installation.

Just download, unzip, and do a @LINK and you should have working versions of the highly useful Unixoid utilities:

GNU Patch 2.5.4: via HTTP or via FTP
GNU Diff Utils 2.7.2: via HTTP or via FTP

Credit where credit is due: the latest round of changes were a group effort by Martin Vorlaender, myself, and (organized and pushed to completion by) Craig Berry.

ZIP, UNZIP and VMSTAR

There are Alpha binaries for UNZIP and VMSTAR in the Perl 5.7.0 binary distribution. Or you can go to the source:

UNZIP for VAX/VMS is available at the WKU fileserver.
Zip
UnZip
TAR

GZIP (April 2000)

For most purposes the standard VMS GZIP distribution is fine for us, but there are other parts of CPAN.PM that use i/o redirection of GZIP which isn't currently supported.

Here's the current (as of 30 Mar 2000) GZIP 1.2.4a distribution, original available from prep.ai.mit.edu.

Then apply this patch which contains Peter Prymmer's DECC patch, my own i/o redirection patch, (so things like "gzip -dc foo.tar-gz >bar." will work), and some extra VAX 7.1 patches.

And here's a AXP V6.2 binary if you really need one.

MMK (22 Dec 2000)

If you are using MMK version 3.8-1 or earlier, you may want to apply this patch. This only affects building a few modules (HTML::Parser, Encode), but does solve some annoying problems with those modules. MMS works okay for these cases. An AXP binary of this patched MMK is included in the Perl 5.7.0 binary distribution

This file was last modified on Wed Jan 3 17:40:06 2001 by lane@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu