Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to download Perl on my workstation. I went to www.cpan.com but couldnt find it. Please advise where I get Perl so I can download it on my NT workstation.

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Re: Downloading Perl from website
by ViceRaid (Chaplain) on Apr 19, 2004 at 11:42 UTC
      Thanks I have it installed now but I how do I get the Perl to execute? I am using Windows 2000 workstation. When I go into DOS to run a test script called first.pl it doesnt recognize Perl:
      'first.pl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, opera +ble program or batch file.
      I know I have to open Folder Options in Control Panel and click the File Types tab then click new but not sure what do to from there to get Perl to work. Please advise.
        (You have to do "assoc ftype" or something of that nature to do that) but you can just type "perl first.pl", assuming perl is in your path to run the script.
Re: Downloading Perl from website
by ishnid (Monk) on Apr 19, 2004 at 11:46 UTC
Re: Downloading Perl from website
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Apr 20, 2004 at 04:46 UTC
Re: Downloading Perl from website
by Wampa (Hermit) on Apr 19, 2004 at 15:14 UTC