There are some Mods available to the Unix runners which are not available, for the novice( and in some cases the veteran) Windows users. Also, some of the ActiveState Mods don't work quite right. I point to a recent problem I had with the Mail-POP3Client mod on Active state, which works great except the Delete area doesn't appear to work. Same code on the Linux box worked just fine. The reverse is true I'll bet, just haven't run into it yet personally.

Learning Perl is a great book, and the Camel book as well. I might suggest the one from the Black Book series. I'm sure its still out, lots of good code examples and pretty easy to follow.

The Perl Cookbook is great, but I didn't find the Oriely System Administration with Perl was that good. Some of the code was just wrong and much of it was "so what?" and I'm even a SysAdmin. To each his own I guess.

Welcome to the fun |-)

webadept

Every day someone is doing what someone else said is impossible.

In reply to Re: RedHat Perl and ActiveState Perl. by webadept
in thread RedHat Perl and ActiveState Perl. by NoobiePerlist

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