Joe, thanks for all your help but, man I'm getting nowhere fast! I
downloaded the Win-GUI-0.0.558.tar.gz, extracted it and tried doing the
install as you described and again no deal (no ppd in the archive). Then I
tried doing another install from AS and I'm still on 0.0.502.
C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>ppm install Win32-GUI.ppd
Retrieving package 'Win32-GUI.ppd'...
Error installing package 'Win32-GUI.ppd': Could not locate a PPD file for
package Win32-GUI.ppd
C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>ppm install Win32::GUI
Retrieving package 'Win32-GUI'...
Writing C:\ActivePerl\site\lib\auto\Win32\GUI\.packlist
C:\ActivePerl\lib\gui\Win32-GUI-0.0.558>ppm
PPM interactive shell (2.0) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> query
Archive-Tar [0.072 ] module for manipulation of tar archives.
Compress-Zlib [1.03 ] Interface to zlib compression library
HTML-Parser [2.23 ] SGML parser class
MIME-Base64 [2.11 ] Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
Net-Telnet [3.02 ] Interact with TELNET port or other TCP ports
PPM [2 ] Perl Package Manager: locate, install, upgrade
software
packages.
Tk [800.022] Tk - a Graphical User Interface Toolkit
URI [1.04 ] Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
Win32-API [0.01 ] Implementation of arbitrary Win32 APIs.
Win32-GUI [0.0.502] Perl-Win32 Graphical User Interface Extension
XML-Element [1.07 ] Base element class for XML elements
XML-Parser [2.27 ] A Perl module for parsing XML documents
libwin32 [0.16 ] A collection of extensions that aims to provide
comprehensive access to the Windows API.
libwww-perl [5.45 ] Library for WWW access in Perl
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