As for 'a', try this:

% perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/joseph/perllib
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The above comes from Item 41 of Effective Perl Programming by our own merlyn and Joseph N. Hall.

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
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