in reply to Perl on Win98 vs. Win/NT/2000?

I was running in to lockup problems on 98 myself. Where WINOLDAPP would stop responding when running a perl script.

However, I reinstalled ActiveState and presto my problems were solved.

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Re: Re: Perl on Win98 vs. Win/NT/2000?
by jlongino (Parson) on Sep 08, 2001 at 07:02 UTC
    Thanks for your reply. I first reran the installation program and did a "repair" install with no success. Then I ran Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled ActiveState, reinstalled it, and the dir version posted above ran perfectly. It seems that a buggy ActiveState installation program is to blame.

    An important test will come tomorrow since I don't have "map" on my home computer. I'll un/reinstall ActiveState at work tomorrow, try my first example program and post an update regarding `map` results. Thanks again, also to everyone else that replied.

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      I find that if I use the backtick in windows on less then vanilla commands to often, eventually I have to reinstall Perl. I have had to do that several times, so I avoid doing anything backtickish on Win32 systems.