EmmittSmith I run WinXP/Linux dual and find it to be a perfectly good platform for Perl development. I have installed ActiveState perl in D:\Perl thus the Perl.exe file is in D:\Perl\bin. As such I go to Control Panel->Advanced tab->Environment Variables... and edit the path statement to include the perl\bin directory:

D:\Perl\bin\

My path looks like the following (i've highlighted the relevant perl entry:

C:\Tcl\bin;C:\Python21\.;D:\Perl\bin\;C:\Program Files\GNU\WinCvs 1.2

Make sure you do this for the 'System Variables' path rather than the 'User' one if you want it to work for all users of your system. Btw, theres no need to restart in XP for these changes to take effect. Just spawn a new command shell: start menu -> run -> cmd.exe

Arun.

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