+You may also want to have on hand:
+ 1) UNZIP.EXE for VMS available from a number of web/ftp sites.
+ http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/UnZip.html
+ http://www.openvms.digital.com/cd/INFO-ZIP/
+ ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/VMS/
+ ftp://ftp.openvms.digital.com/
+ ftp://ftp.madgoat.com/madgoat/
+ ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/
+ 2) GUNZIP/GZIP.EXE for VMS available from a number of web/ftp sites.
+ http://www.fsf.org/order/ftp.html
+ ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu/diffutils*.tar.gz
+ ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU/diffutils*.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils*.tar.gz
+ http://www.openvms.digital.com/cd/GZIP/
+ ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/VMS/
+ 3) VMS TAR also available from a number of web/ftp sites.
+ ftp://ftp.lp.se/vms/
+ http://www.openvms.digital.com/cd/VMSTAR/
+ ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/VMS/
+Please note that UNZIP and GUNZIP are not the same thing (they work with
+different formats). Most of the useful files from CPAN (the Comprehensive
+Perl Archive Network) are in .tar.gz format (this includes copies of the
+source code for perl as well as modules and scripts that you may wish to
+add later) hence you probably want to have GUNZIP.EXE and VMSTAR.EXE on
+your VMS machine.