Subj : [--- PERL 5.0, patch level 4.02 ---]
To   : tony summerfelt
From : Winston Smith
Date : Tue Apr 10 2001 08:05 pm

RE: Perl Rules
BY: tony summerfelt to all on Sun Apr 01 2001 03:01:00

Hey There!
 
     I finally got PERL 5.0 running on my INTeL 80386 under MS-DS 6.xx.  Three
things needed to be done, none of which were mentioned (that I could find). 
1.) The SETVER version converter had to be loaded.  2.) The SMARTDRV SmartDrive
disk caching device had to be loaded.  3.) An 80387 math co-processor, or a
software emulation of the 387 had to be loaded.
 
     I must say that PERL 5.0 is much more MS-DOS aware than PERL 4.0.  I
needed ten seconds of load time just to load COMMAND.COM in with my back-tick
execution A LA <tick>C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM \C TRUENAME<tick> ... whereas with PERL
5.0 I didn't need to load COMMAND.COM.  I'd just go $PWD=<tick>TRUENAME<tick>. 
It's much, much nicer!
 
     One problem though!  I can not load the debugger module PERL5DB, nor run
the PERLDOC P.O.D. processor without tripping a "Page Fault" and a register
dump!  What is the device driver and memory footprint I need so that page loads
will not conk out on me?  How do I load the UMB,HMB/XMS,EMS LIM,ISA whatever...
so that PERL 5.0 doesn't break when it loads its debugging module?  What do I
set my BUFFERS, STACKS, and FILES, to?  Does anyone have the proper values or
have tips on how to examine memory while PERL is running, et cetera?  (Is this
the wrong message base, do I need to ask this in 'C' or 'ASM' ?)  Thank You.
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