Stevieb, Thanks for pointing out the no-install portable version of Strawberry Perl for Windows. What I am actually looking for is a tiny, minimal Perl interpreter, in a single file, suited for one to learn the basics of a programming language. Something with the kind of functionality of the early versions of BASIC, and taking about a few hundred KB would do fine. The portable version of Strawberry Perl at 148 MB seems to be a well-endowed version of Perl, more suited to meet higher level demands. - Anonymous Monk