Michael Patterson writes:
> I stumbled upon this HP site which happens to contain a Freeeware
> version of Perl - along with Samba/ix, Java and other utilities. They do
> warn that this is 'wholly untested software'. You'll find the site at:
>     http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/perl/perl.html

That would be Perl 4.0.36, which is no longer supported by the official Perl
developers.

I have ported the latest & greatest public release of Perl (5.004_01) to MPE/iX
and you can find it at:

        http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/perlix.html

My port of Perl is more than 99% fully functional on MPE, only failing 14 out
of 4100+ self-tests, and most of those failures are due to MPE POSIX not
supporting hard links.

> The entire site is worth the time to explore.

I agree.  All HP 3000 sites should visit Jazz from time to time.
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