This is the "beginners" list after all... while it may be fun for some to
get cygwin going in order to learn perl, or to buy a compiler and create a
custom version, for most ActiveState works quite fine and will install and
perform without needing to spend a lot of time learning even more computing
processes. None of this seems to address why one or the other of the Perl
options on Win2k might be better than the other for FUNCTIONAL reasons.
Download and install ActiveState on win2k and you will be up and going (with
a fast connection) in 15 minutes. Download, install CYGWIN, compile your own
version of perl, etc. and you are spending considerably more time that may
well not be worth the time.
The fact that ActiveState == Microsoft is a non-issue if one is installing
on Win2K anyway, or at least it shouldn't matter a whole lot.
c
