I would suggest getting a copy of CYGWIN. It runs great and emulates a *nix environment quite well. While you're at it, get a copy of Vim along with GVim. As far as Perl, along with most other OpenSource packages such as Berkeley DB and more, will compile under CIGWIN just fine with GCC. The version of GCC which comes with it will also bootstrap a new version of itself. I was running this quite well developing Perl programs and such until I put a copy of Linux and installed VMWare along with Oracle for Linux to do things the other way around. Works much better now and duplicates the work environment a bit better. My laptop has more power than most desktops, but I digress...

Mike
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Harlan Ellison

In reply to Re: Installing PERL in my PC by unixwzrd
in thread Installing PERL in my PC by Anonymous Monk

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