This distribution is a replacement for the builtin distribution. This package contains a selection of subroutines that people have expressed would be nice to have in the perl core, but the usage would not really be high enough to warrant the use of a keyword, and the size so small such that being individual extensions would be wasteful. After unpacking the distribution, to install this module type perl Makefile.PL make make test make install KNOWN BUGS There is a bug in perl5.6.0 with UV's that are >= 1<<31. This will show up as tests 8 and 9 of dualvar.t failing Copyright (c) 1997-2006 Graham Barr . All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.