in reply to Paring Down Perl

You might consider, or suggest to your PC guy, that the application + perl be placed on a shared drive somewhere the 200 PC's can get at it and distribute a shortcut to the individual PCs. It'd save a heap of disc space at the cost of a slightly longer delay on startup.

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