I've been learning perl for the past few months now on my win2k pro box, with ActivePerl build 631, which of course in and of itself is fine. I've run into a problem however which is that a majority of code is written for *nix systems and i don't possess the skills to port it. Now i have an old laptop (Compaq Presario 1277, 430Mhz, 4.56Gb HDD), which is keeping me held down by the amount of space i have to work with. I have a seperate partition where i could do one of two things; install the latest release of cygwin, or, install Red Hat 7.2. Only problem with RD7.2 though is that i can't use the internet becuse i have a winmodem that is unsupported, and my dsl connection is PPPoE, which i have no clue how to implement. My question is; what would be my best course of action in learning the full realm of possibilties of perl, or if this is even nessicary and i should just stick with the stand-alone win2k. Any responses will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

@t=(201,205);print v99.111.109.109.111.110.32,chr(@t)

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