University of Michigan LDAPv2 Client Library
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                            August 2000

This directory contains the files necessary for writing LDAP client
software for OpenVMS VAX and Alpha.  They are built from the UMich
LDAPv2 software released a long time ago (Version 3.3, April 1996)
which is available at

                http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/

For more recent, supported, free LDAP you could look at OpenLDAP
(www.openldap.org) but this is not available on OpenVMS owing to the
very Unix-centric build procedure.

Dowloading
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Transfer the .H files in text mode, the .OLB_* files in binary mode. 
(If you retrieve them using the Madgoat or MultiNet FTP clients you
won't need to worry about this.)

Once on your system, move all the *.H files to SYS$LIBRARY: and move
the appropriate LIBLDAP.OLB_xxx file to SYS$LIBRARY:LIBLDAP.OLB.

Using these files
-----------------
In your program, you need only to refer to the LIBLDAP.H file to get
all the others.

It helps to make the following logocal name assignment, too:

    $ define/system  LIBLDAP  SYS$LIBRARY:LIBLDAP.OLB

then you can simply

    $ link program,libldap/library



Using Perl
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This software will work with the Perl Net::LDAPapi module provided you
replace the supplied LDAP_COMPAT.H file by the one found in this
directory.