README file for Gedcom-Date. See also: CHANGES and Changelog.ini. Warning: WinZip 8.1 and 9.0 both contain an 'accidental' bug which stops them recognizing POSIX-style directory structures in valid tar files. You are better off using a reliable tool such as InfoZip: ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ 1 Installing from a Unix-like distro ------------------------------------ shell> tar xvf Gedcom-Date-1.00.tgz shell> cd Gedcom-Date-1.00 shell> perl Makefile.PL shell> make shell> make test shell> su (for Unix-like systems, if using the system Perl) shell> make install shell> exit (for Unix-like systems) On all systems: Run lib/Gedcom/Date.pm through your favourite pod2html translator. 2 Installing from an ActiveState distro --------------------------------------- Note: These instructions are literally ancient and may have to be changed: shell>unzip Gedcom-Date-1.00.zip shell>ppm install --location=. Gedcom-Date shell>del Gedcom-Date-1.00.ppd shell>del PPM-Gedcom-Date-1.00.tar.gz