Juan Pineiro wrote:
>
> Hello 3000 team.
>
> I'm attempting to install Perl/ix on a HP3000 running mpe 6.0 - the last
> message the install gives me is :
>
> "Running /SYS/HPBIN/TAR toextract the archive1" message
>
> I  am then prompted for
> "If you want to go on, type device/file name when ready"
> over and over.
>
> This looks like some kind of problem with TAR - any way around it?

I'm aware of a tar bug which causes this problem, but Perl/iX shouldn't contain
those types of files, and nobody else has ever reported this type of install
trouble with Perl/iX before.

> I was not sure if the installation was successful - it does not appear
> to have finished as I am getting the following message I attempt to run
> Perl:
>
> <DEV> PUB.PERL:perl
> The file length kept in the LST header exceeds the actual file size.
> (LDRERR 622)
> Native mode loader message 622
> Unable to load program to be run. (CIERR 625)
> <DEV> PUB.PERL:

This however is due to a well-known and despised tar problem where existing
files don't get overlaid properly.  So the workaround is to purge all Perl/iX
files and then do the reinstall so tar doesn't try to overlay anything that
already exists.

- Mark B.