Unless you're connected up to CPAN and installing every Perl module there
is, /PERL probably won't be more than 40, 50, maybe 60MB.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellis, Steve (COMPRINT S)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:16
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] perl disk space requirements


> 300 megs is bloat? I guess I've gotten too used to installing Microsoft
> products. How big should the PERL account be?
>
> Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> >Severe bloat like that is usually a symptom of not having the latest tar
> patch
> >installed when you unpack PERL.  You want MPELX37A for 6.0 and MPELX37B
for
> 6.5.
> >FWIW, I suspect MPELX37A will probably also work on 5.5, though that is
> strictly
> >Mark Bixby advice and not officially supported HP advice.
> >
> >If you have MPEX or one of those disk space management tools, just
release
> the
> >unused space beyond the EOF of every file in the PERL account.
> >
> >- Mark B.
> >
> >Joe Weisman wrote:
> >>
> >> I downloaded and installed APACHE and PERL, and the PERL account is
using
> >> 1.25 million sectors.  That is about a quarter of my total disk space
so
> I
> >> would like to remove some of the stuff that I am not using.  Is there
any
> >> easy way to do that?
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