Greetings Perl Monks,

I teach biochemistry at a small liberal arts college in Kentucky, Berea College. We recently had a computer crash that wiped out my programs on a very old computer (running Windows XP) attached to an instrument (a liquid chromatogram/mass spectrometer, LC/MS). To complete some proteomics experiments with my students, I really need to re-install a software package called BioWorks 3.2 originally provided by the company ThermoFinnigan. I have that installer, but unfortunately this requires build 811 of ActivePerl 5.8. Is there any chance that someone out there still has ActivePerl running on an old computer and maybe still has the installer? The new software is too expensive for us to upgrade, sadly.

I searched and found ActivePerl traffic on PerlMonks, hence my query here. I have asked Active State (the company selling ActivePerl) but not gotten a reply yet. I really need to get it this week if at all possible.

Thanks in advance!

Matt

In reply to Need ancient ActivePerl installer (build 811 of ActivePerl 5.8) by matsad

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