Yes, Learning Perl on Win32 is getting a little dated. I would generally suggest Learning Perl and Programming Perl - the newer Perl releases are generally basically identical on Win32 and *nix. The newer editions of the books also tend to be more Win32 friendly.

I have the Win32 book, but never look at it these days.

GUI programming tends to be done using Perl/Tk - there is a reasonable book - Mastering Perl/Tk - also from O'Reilly. Tk is very portable, I have clients using the same code on Win32, Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX and Mac. Prima is another GUI toolkit and I will be giving it a try very soon. Likewise there is WxPerl which is new but worth a look.

Prowel around the Masontery here, look in the Tutorials in particular and become familiar with SUper Search. YOu will find lots of wonderful info here.

jdtoronto