Hello,

I installed Active perl 5.8.6 on my computer (1). I am not able to start ppm from the command line...Also, when I try and run a thread application it hangs up. What could be the problem?

In my other computer (2) I have a 5.8.4 installed...and threads and ppm etc work fine on that. I tried to intially copy all my perl files from computer (2) to computer (1), but the threads, ppm etc. did not work. So I installed Activestate perl 5.8.4 into computer (1), that did not make it work. Then I installed Activestate perl 5.8.6 in computer (1) and that also does not seem to help. I feel there is either a module I need to install or it is a small setting problem...but I can't figure out what it is. Any suggetions?

Thanks.

In reply to Getting perl to work by Anonymous Monk

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