I did read a write-up in SysAdmin mag that the perl that comes with solaris 8 did some funny things. I tried it (perl) on a new E250 with the default perl and it was doing some straing things. I just went and loaded perl 5.6 and everything worked..

As to NT, they have perl included in there resource pack. It is a bad version though. Most normal things dont work and the (-V|-v) shows that it was compiled by Microsoft so im not sure what they did to it. I dump it for ActiveState's perl ASAP.

As a side note to the perl on Solaris8. They also give you cds with GNU make, gimp and a bunch of other stuff. Most of it is the same as from http://www.sunfreeware.com

Joshua M Curtis
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