Re: how to use perl in windows

2004-06-06 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:38:06PM +0100, aditi gupta wrote: hi, for writing perl programs,notepad is used.But what should be done to execute the programs? What I generally do is to open a DOS window and type 'perl name of my script'. So, if I want to run foo.pl, I type: perl

RE: how to use perl in windows

2004-06-06 Thread Tim Johnson
My $0.02: Go to www.activestate.com and download ActivePerl. Not only is it the de facto Win32 Perl distribution, but you will have access to PPM, which lets you install most commonly-used modules at the touch of a button (especially convenient because Windows doesn't come with a