Dear Monks,

Maybe I should be sleeping instead of asking this, but...

I have Perl ActiveState 5.10 on the laptop I use at work. Lately I read some interesting posts about Win32::OLE and I wanted to experiment with the module, nothing urgent though. I realized Win32::OLE was not available through the standard repo accessed by ppm, nor from a popular alternate source(umanitoba).

Questions:

• Do I just have to be patient?
• Is it worth uninstalling 5.10 and reverting to 5.8?
• Isn't it strange for such a module not to be readily available for a distribution specific to Windows?
• Should I just do it on my home computer under linux?
• Am I completely off the track and missing something obvious?

Regards and thanks for providing any enlightenment,

Feedback Thanks to all. Win32::OLE was there alright as the oneliner listed here quickly pointed out (use double quotes however as is preferred under Windows). I misread an error message and wrongly concluded the module was missing. Thanks as well for other posts, they should prove useful when I get off the ground and start using modules more proficiently.

So the answers to my 5 questions can be seen as: 0 0 0 0 1

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