Hi

I have installed Perl on Windows OS more times than I have hairs on my head! however....

I have downloaded active perl v 5.8.8 for WinXP from active estat.com. I installed it without any problems. Then I test the installation with this code 
#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -slw
use strict;
print "\nHello World \n";

what I got back when I ran the script was:

C:\Perl>test.pl
Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at C:\Perl\test.pl l
+ine 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Perl\test.pl line 2.

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I tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. How can I get perl to point @INC to the normal places @INC points at.

Thanks

In reply to trouble shooting perl installation by Anonymous Monk

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