--- doc/otherfiles/perl_modules.txt	2001/12/29 19:12:18	1.8
+++ doc/otherfiles/perl_modules.txt	2003/10/23 20:55:38	1.16
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 LON-CAPA perl modules
-Scott Harrison
 May 28, 2001
 October 4, 2001
 October 20, 2001
@@ -16,9 +15,10 @@ Not ordinarily on a 6.2 or 7.1 system
 
 ----------------------------------------------- Digest
 ***NEED TO HAVE DIGEST::MD5, etc IN HERE***
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GAAS/Digest-MD5-2.20.tar.gz
 
 ----------------------------------------------- Math-FFT
-http://www.linuxjar.com/CPAN/authors/id/R/RK/RKOBES/Math-FFT-0.25.tar.gz
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RK/RKOBES/Math-FFT-0.25.tar.gz
 Randy Kobes [randy@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca]
 
 The Math::FFT module provides an interface to various
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ make install
 files
 
 ----------------------------------------------- Math-Random
-http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GROMMEL/Math-Random-0.61.tar.gz
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GROMMEL/Math-Random-0.64.tar.gz
 
 Written by Geoffrey Rommel, John Venier and Barry W. Brown.
 We use this for the encoded randomizing functions needed for LON-CAPA homework
@@ -205,13 +205,60 @@ Sean M. Burke [sburke@cpan.org]
 		    HTML/Parse.pm
 
 ---------------------------------------------- HTML-Parser
-http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.25.tar.gz
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.26.tar.gz
 Gisle Aas [gisle@aas.no]
 		    HTML/Parser.pm 1
 		    HTML/TokeParser.pm 1
 
+Need this patches applied:
+
+diff -u HTML-Parser-3.26/hparser.c HTML-Parser-3.26.simpleslashfix/hparser.c
+--- HTML-Parser-3.26/hparser.c	Sun Mar 17 15:07:57 2002
++++ HTML-Parser-3.26.simpleslashfix/hparser.c	Fri Mar 22 13:23:17 2002
+@@ -1101,14 +1101,21 @@
+     hctype_t tag_name_first, tag_name_char;
+     hctype_t attr_name_first, attr_name_char;
+ 
+-    if (p_state->strict_names || p_state->xml_mode) {
++    if (p_state->strict_names) {
+ 	tag_name_first = attr_name_first = HCTYPE_NAME_FIRST;
+ 	tag_name_char  = attr_name_char  = HCTYPE_NAME_CHAR;
+     }
+     else {
+-	tag_name_first = tag_name_char = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_GT;
+-	attr_name_first = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_GT;
+-	attr_name_char  = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_EQ_GT;
++       if (p_state->xml_mode) {
++           tag_name_first = tag_name_char = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_SLASH_GT;
++           attr_name_first = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_SLASH_GT;
++           attr_name_char  = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_EQ_GT;
++       }
++       else {
++           tag_name_first = tag_name_char = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_GT;
++           attr_name_first = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_GT;
++           attr_name_char  = HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_EQ_GT;
++       }
+     }
+ 
+     s += 2;
+@@ -1165,8 +1172,11 @@
+ 	    else {
+ 		char *word_start = s;
+ 		while (s < end && isHNOT_SPACE_GT(*s)) {
+-		    if (p_state->xml_mode && *s == '/')
+-			break;
++                   if (p_state->xml_mode && *s == '/') {
++                       /* look ahead to see if the tag ends */
++                       if ((s+1)==end || *(s+1)=='>')
++                           break;
++                   }
+ 		    s++;
+ 		}
+ 		if (s == end)
+
 ---------------------------------------------- IO-stringy
 http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/IO-stringy-2.108.tar.gz
+(needed by MIME-tools)
 
 ---------------------------------------------- MIME-Base64
 http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MIME-Base64-2.12.tar.gz
@@ -306,7 +353,7 @@ Jeff Horwitz [jeff@smashing.org]
 		    Authen/Krb4.pm
 
 ---------------------------------------------- Crypt-DES/IDEA
-http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BT/BTROTT/Crypt-DES_EDE3-0.01.tar.gz
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DP/DPARIS/Crypt-DES-2.03.tar.gz
 http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DP/DPARIS/Crypt-IDEA-1.01.tar.gz
 Dave Paris [amused@pobox.com]
 		    Crypt/DES.pm
@@ -384,12 +431,37 @@ Graham Barr [gbarr@pobox.com]
 		    IO/Socket/INET.pm
 		    IO/Socket/UNIX.pm
 
+
+**** IMPORTANT NOTE ****
+For things to work well for perl 5.005 (redhat 6.2)
+older versions of
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/IO.pm
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/IO/File.pm
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/IO/Handle.pm
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/IO/Pipe.pm
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/IO/Select.pm
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/IO/Socket.pm
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/auto/IO/IO.so
+are needed (can rewrite with rpm -Uvh perl after
+installing LON-CAPA-systemperl).
+
 perl Makefile.PL
 make
 make test
 (as root)
 make install
 
+---------------------------------------------- PostScript-Simple
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MC/MCNEWTON/PostScript-Simple-0.05.tar.gz
+Matthew C. Newton perl03@newtoncomputing.co.uk
+                    PostScript/Simple.pm
+
+perl Makefile.pl
+make
+make test
+(as root)
+make install
 
 and others...
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