README for VMS::System Copyright (c) 1997 Dan Sugalski and Linn-Benton Community College You may distribute under the terms of the Artistic License, as distributed with Perl. This module lets you retrieve most of the info available via the system service GETSYI, or the DCL lexical F$GETSYI. It also allows retrieval of all the system parameters available from SYSGEN. perl Makefile.pl mms mms test to build and test the extension. If it tests OK, then mms install to install it. More info is in the POD documentation in the System.PM file. VMS::System allows Perl programs to retrieve info about systems. The information it returns is pretty much equivalent to DCL's F$GETSYI function, or what SYSGEN provides. This module can't violate VMS system security in any way that DCL can't, so if you can see something with F$GETSYI, you can see it with VMS::System. If you can't in DCL or SYSGEN, you can't here, either. WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.03? Added support for four neato-keen, but undocumented items--FAN_VECTOR, THERMAL_VECTOR, TEMPERATURE_VECTOR, and POWER_VECTOR. They're only available in VMS 7.1-1h1 and up, and only for AlphaServer 4000, 4100, 1200, 1000A, and 8400.