Here is where you find old perls:

http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/

This page is pretty helpful too:

http://www.cpan.org/src

Installing perl from source is really easy:

$ wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz
$ tar -zxf perl-5.8.1.tar.gz 
$ cd perl-5.8.1
$ sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/opt/perl-5.8.1
$ make
$ make install
$ export PATH="/opt/perl-5.8.1/bin:$PATH"

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Now you have a throwaway perl in /opt/perl-5.8.1.

In reply to Re: Windows type needs to set up Linux with Perl 5.8.1 to match PAUSE by trwww
in thread Windows type needs to set up Linux with Perl 5.8.1 to match PAUSE by hsmyers

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