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

Thanks for directing me to the PerlSH interpreter, the only problem now is, how do I run it? There's no .exe file anywhere in the download.

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Re: PerlSH
by neshura (Chaplain) on Mar 17, 2000 at 00:08 UTC
    If you are in the Windows world, you should probably go download the activestate version of the perl interpreter, aka activeperl. There is documentation at the site that will give you more information about installing, running, and using this port. Read as much of it as you can, you will find it helpful!!

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Re: PerlSH
by ender (Novice) on Mar 16, 2000 at 22:52 UTC
    psh (the perl shell) is a shell for unix, it won't work (at least, not without significant porting) on your windows machine.

    I guess i'm confused because Perl itself is an interpreted language. If you just run perl without any arguments, it should let you type in code and execute it. For instance (at least on unix): 

    alfalfa:~/perl
print "Hello World!\n";
(ctrl-d) (this may be different for windows, it means End of File in unix)
Hello World!
alfalfa:~/

    Is this what you're talking about doing?

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