Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?
Alternative to all the other suggestions, you could get a shell account with one of a number of providers like www.freeshell.org and use Perl from there. I think there may be some restrictions on Perl at the basic membership levels, but I think it's safe to say that most such providers have Perl on their systems. Best, Damon Ron Smith wrote: Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? -- Damon Allen DAVISON http://www.allolex.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?
I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through Learning Pearl, but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Is Perl small enough to be installed on a floppy disk that can be moved from machine to machine? Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? TIA Ron Smith - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!
Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?
I haven't used it myself however I understand there is Active Perl for Windows available. I don't have any details but perhaps you could google for it or someone here could give you directions. Ron Smith wrote: I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through Learning Pearl, but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Is Perl small enough to be installed on a floppy disk that can be moved from machine to machine? Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? TIA Ron Smith - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?
On Jun 25, 2004, at 1:25 PM, u235sentinel wrote: I haven't used it myself however I understand there is Active Perl for Windows available. I don't have any details but perhaps you could google for it or someone here could give you directions. No need to do this as it is available from http://www.perl.com/ with all the other distributions. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?
I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through Learning Pearl, but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Is Perl small enough to be installed on a floppy disk that can be moved from machine to machine? Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? As the others have pointed out, you can install Perl on windows. You *might* be able to get it to run from a CD provided the drive letter was the same (but this is very theoretical, and might prove difficult). If you are at school there is bound to be a unix box of some sort around that will have it installed, ask around and see if you can get an account to play with Perl. If not at school, you could certainly get a cheap hosting account at an online hoster, pick one with shell access, and practice up your Perl that way, of course that would be more expensive than just buying a computer these days eventually. You could probably get a computer on Ebay for less than $200 and install Linux to avoid the M$ tax. You might also visit a local Perl Mongers group and ask one of the members if you could have access to their machine, one of them is bound to have a server accessible from the internet and would consider giving another member an account provided you didn't abuse it. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?
On Jun 25, 2004, at 8:50 PM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through Learning Pearl, but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Is Perl small enough to be installed on a floppy disk that can be moved from machine to machine? Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? As the others have pointed out, you can install Perl on windows. You *might* be able to get it to run from a CD provided the drive letter was the same (but this is very theoretical, and might prove difficult). If you are at school there is bound to be a unix box of some sort around that will have it installed, ask around and see if you can get an account to play with Perl. If not at school, you could certainly get a cheap hosting account at an online hoster, pick one with shell access, and practice up your Perl that way, of course that would be more expensive than just buying a computer these days eventually. You could probably get a computer on Ebay for less than $200 and install Linux to avoid the M$ tax. You might also visit a local Perl Mongers group and ask one of the members if you could have access to their machine, one of them is bound to have a server accessible from the internet and would consider giving another member an account provided you didn't abuse it. ...or finally you can try with a linux-live distribution like knoppix: http://www.knoppix.org/ It comes with perl like every linux... and a lot of other stuff and... no configuration problems. You don't need to install anithing, you need only the 'permissions' to reboot the computer from cd and play with it until the end of the day! Remo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?
Ron Smith wrote: ... I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Go to http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ and install ActivePerl (free). Is Perl small enough to be installed on a floppy disk that can be moved from machine to machine? Nope. It may have at one time. http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlhist.html The ActiveState .msi installation image _will_ fit on a CD. Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? Not really. There are various ways of bundling an application for deployment on a target machine without having to install Perl separately. You can also install Perl on a network share and run it that way I guess. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
