Problem is, I'm behind a nasty proxy-thing and can't download ANYTHING except through MSIE.

If you have an emergency problem, and corporate IT policies are preventing you from getting your job done, you need to escalate through your management, and get it on record. I'm not recommending starting a fight over it, but the cost on productivity of stupid policies needs to be made visible, or stupid policies will never go away.

If you can, phrase the problem in dollar terms, since upper management understands money. And don't point fingers. "This policy is preventing me from completing this project. Every day I'm prevented from completing this project is costing you $X" can get more attention than a "those meanies in IT won't let me blah blah blah" whine.

And while you're taking the high road, you might be able to download the .PPM files over MSIE, then trick out PPM to use a local (on the same machine) web server to do the install.

In reply to Re: ActivePerl Problems by dws
in thread ActivePerl Problems by Anonymous Monk

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