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1.1       misho       1: From file: CURL_RELEASE_NOTE_START.TXT
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                      3: Note: These kits are produced by a hobbyist and are providing any support
                      4: or any commitment to supply bug fixes or future releases.  This code is
                      5: as-is with no warrantees.
                      6: 
                      7: The testing of this build of curl was minimal and involved building some of
                      8: the sample and test programs, accessing a public HTTPS: website, doing a
                      9: form post of some VMS test files, and FTP upload of some text files.
                     10: 
                     11: Due to the way that PCSI identifies packages, if you install a package from
                     12: one producer and then want to upgrade it from another producer, you will
                     13: probably need to uninstall the previous package first.
                     14: 
                     15: OpenVMS specific building and kitting instructions are after the standard
                     16: curl readme file.
                     17: 
                     18: This product may be available for your platform in a PCSI kit.  The source kit
                     19: contains files for building CURL using GNV or with a DCL procedure.
                     20: 
                     21: The GNV based build creates a libcurl share imaged which is supplied in the
                     22: PCSI kit.
                     23: 
                     24: This version of CURL will return VMS compatible status codes when run from
                     25: DCL and Unix compatible exit codes and messages when run with the SHELL
                     26: environment variable set.
                     27: 
                     28: This port of Curl uses the OpenSSL, Ldap, and Kerberos V5 that are bundled
                     29: with OpenVMS or supplied as updates by HP.  Ldap and Kerberos are not available
                     30: on the VAX platform.  See section below for a special note about HP OpenSSL
                     31: on Alpha and IA64.
                     32: 
                     33: The supplied CURL_STARTUP.COM procedure that is installed in
                     34: [VMS$COMMON.SYS$STARTUP] can be put in your VMS startup procedure to install
                     35: the GNV$LIBCURL shared image and create logical names GNV$LIBCURL to reference
                     36: it.  It will create the GNV$CURL_INCLUDE logical name for build procedures
                     37: to access the header files.
                     38: 
                     39: Normally to use curl from DCL, just create a foreign command as:
                     40:    curl :== $gnv$gnu:[usr.bin]gnv$curl.exe
                     41: 
                     42: If you need to work around having the older HP SSL kit installed, then
                     43: for DCL create this command procedure:
                     44: 
                     45:  $ create/dir gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]/prot=w:re
                     46:  $ create gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com
                     47:  $ curl := $gnv$gnu:[usr.bin]gnv$curl.exe
                     48:  $ define/user ssl$libcrypto_shr32 gnv$curl_ssl_libcryptoshr32
                     49:  $ curl "''p1'" "''p2'" "''p3'" "''p4'" "''p5'" "''p6'" "''p7'" "''p8'"
                     50:  ^Z
                     51: 
                     52: Then you can use: curl :== @gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com to run curl.
                     53: 
                     54: For the HP SSL work around to work for GNV do the following:
                     55:  $ create/dir gnv$gnu:[usr.local.bin]/prot=w:re
                     56:  $ create gnv$gnu:[usr.local.bin]curl.
                     57:  #! /bin/sh
                     58:  dcl @gnv\$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com $*
                     59:  ^Z
                     60: 
                     61: Similar work arounds will be needed for any program linked with GNV$LIBCURL
                     62: until the HP OpenSSL is upgraded to the current 1.4 version or later.
                     63: 
                     64: If you are installing a "daily" build instead of a release build of Curl, some
                     65: things have been changed so that it can be installed at the same time as
                     66: a production build with out conflicts.
                     67: 
                     68:    The CURL_DAILY_STARTUP.COM will be supplied instead of CURL_STARTUP.COM.
                     69:    This file is actually not used with the daily package and is provided as
                     70:    a preview of what the next CURL_STARTUP.COM will be for the next release.
                     71:    Do not run it.
                     72: 
                     73:    The files that are normally installed in [VMS$COMMON.GNV.usr], for the
                     74:    daily build are installed in [VMS$COMMON.GNV.beta] directory.
                     75: 
                     76:    To use the daily GNV$LIBCURL image, you will need to define the logical
                     77:    name GNV$LIBCURL to the image.