I have recently downloaded the latest Active State Perl for windows NT and have installed it. Unfortunately, this is my only option here at work for playing with Perl. My main objective is to try and get the Win32-GUI chat running so that I don't have to keep clicking on 'talk'. Well, in learning to install a module in Active State I ran into something rather curious. Is it possible to install a module in Active State Perl that is downloaded from CPAN instead of Active State's PPM archive? It works fine when I download from Active State and the zipped package contains a '*.ppd' file to tell the package manager about all the packages in the repository, but I cannot figure out if it is possible to install a module from CPAN instead. Any one have any ideas? Thank you in advance!!!



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In reply to Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl by jlk

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