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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:55:16 +0200
From: Molnar Laszlo <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
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To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Subject: Re: perl for djgpp
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Robert Hoehne wrote:

> I think you should do the same way like Eli and I in the last
> uploaded GNU ports. 

OK, I'll download and check some.

> Do change any original shell scripts to
> support ';' as path separator but created a configure.bat
> in the base src directory which configures perl for
> DJGPP by (in you case calling the djgpp/prepare.bat)
> and the setting some environment variables and the
> calling the configure script, like:
> 
> SET PATH_SEPARATOR=:

You mean PATH_SEPARATOR=; don't you?

> > I think about creating 3 archives for the binary distribution: one for
> > the executable programs and the documentation in .pod format (or should
> > I use .txt??), one for the LIB directory, and one for the documentation
> > in html format. What do you think?
> Because I currently don't know what the .pod format is, I would
> prefer the .txt format if there is no .info format available.

.pod is for Plain Old Doc. This is like .txt but contains some simple
formatting code. There are converters in the package to convert from
.pod to .man or .html or .tex (no .info unfortunately). 
So I'll use .txt.

Laszlo