expandfile
03/15/2020

See https://multicians.org/thvv/htmx/expandfile.html

Brief installation instructions:

Mac
-- install Apple Xcode
-- install Apple command line tools

Unix/Linux/Mac
-- install Perl
-- create ~/bin and add to your PATH
-- install programs and libraries you need from your package manager
-- install Perl if not already installed
-- set environment vars PERL5LIB, VERSIONER_PERL_PREFER_32_BIT, PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT, PERL_MB_OPT, PERL_MM_OPT
-- install MySQL, set user and password, set up .my.cnf
-- install CPAN modules LWP::Simple, Term::ANSIColor, DBI, DBD::mysql, XML::LibXML, XML::Simple
-- fetch the contents of the repository
-- move expandfile, the .pm modules, and the commands into your /bin and set PERL5LIB to search that too

Windows
-- TBD

Smoke test:
-- expandfile
should get no errors and no output.

See the web page for more.

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