From my limited understanding of the ways of perl, I believe
windows 95 is only of limited enlightenment in these ways.
From what I can figure perl is only 90% compatible with windows
95. There is a utility floating about that can check on your
system's level of compatibility. I found it in the
Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days book. This book is very
good and almost all of the programs work. It even includes
a batch file that will turn your perl programs so that they
can be launched from the command line without invoking perl
with each execution.