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Perl itself is 20kb, but the Perl560.dll is 648kb on Windows 2000. I think you have to have it to run. Even if you did copy perl.exe, you'd need to make sure it got into the %PATH% environment variable, or was in the same directory as the script. I think it would be easier to just distribute ActivePerl and the script together.

In reply to Re: Re: Copying Perl by coolmichael
in thread Copying Perl by dmckee

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