<address><A HREF="mailto:ip@g8sjp.demon.co.uk">Iain Phillips G0RDI</A></address>
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<P>This HOWTO describes the installation for DX Spider v1.11 on a "vanilla"
<A href="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> 5.1 platform,
Red Hat 5.1 distribution. I always select 'everything', and that seems to ensure that
nothing is missed out :-) [ more normal people may like to try with less <em>Ed</em> ].
+ <p><b><i>WARNING</i></b> The perl on the vanilla RedHat 5.2
+ (perl-5.004m4-1.i386.rpm) is <em>BROKEN</em>, please use the one
+ in the <a href="../download/index.html#perl">Download</a> section.
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<p>The crucial ingredient for all of this is <a href="http://www.perl.org">Perl 5.004</a>. Now I know
Perl 5.005 is out and this will almost certainly work with it, but
<A Href="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> 5.1 comes with 5.004.
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<P>This has to be done to allow you to specify the correct callsigns on outgoing connects
- <p><LI>Login to your computer as sysop, and create the initial DX Spider parameters necessary to start the cluster for the first time.
+ <p><LI><a name="dxvar"></a>Login to your computer as sysop, and create the initial DX Spider parameters necessary to start the cluster for the first time.
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$ startx			(much easier to use X)
$ cd /spider