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README file for Gedcom-Date.

See also: CHANGES and Changelog.ini.

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1 Installing from a Unix-like distro
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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
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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