I use Cygwin on my Windows system and yes there is a version of Perl installed under Cygwin and a separate one installed under Windows (i.e. ActiveState). I do not seem to experience any collisions except some strange DOS behavior where some MS-DOS commands do not seem to work as they used to but I think that is the fault of ActiveState.

The nice thing about Cygwin is that it seems like a complete UNIX environment purportedly with cron etc etc. So you can run your perl scripts under the Cygwin shell like this:

     ./script.pl
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whereas under DOS, you cannot.

I admit that it would be nice to have things like grep, less, whatever under Windows/DOS so that I didn't have to go into the Cygwin shell but oh well.

metadoktor

"The doktor is in."

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