I tried 'ppm' in the perl folder. It hung. No error message. Had to close the command window to get out.

I tried 'ppm Tk' and 'ppm Tkx', they both hung.

I did a search on 'ppm' and there were over 50 files with ppm in the name.

One named 'ppm.bat' in the bin folder looked promising, so I thought I'd look at it to get an idea of how to use it. It had over 2000 lines, none of them explaining how to call it.

So, now I have to debug ppm?

I found a winword file from 2000 purporting to explain how PPM works. It says it uses a PPD file which can be somewhere on the internet, but gives not the slightest hint of where.

How can I find out if ppm is even properly installed?

In reply to Re^2: Accessing perl/Tk by hsfrey
in thread Accessing perl/Tk by hsfrey

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