Re^2: Perl for Windows ?

I agree wholeheartedly! Besides Perl, Cygwin will also give you the option of installing gcc, bash, vim, emacs, locate, wget, and tons of other useful GNU utilities.

Also, under Cygwin, all your local files are directly accessible, so C:\Temp\foo.txt is directly accessible as /cygdrive/c/Temp/foo.txt. That's handy.

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Re^3: Perl for Windows ? by jflevi (Beadle) on Mar 05, 2008 at 01:32 UTC
Thanks for all suggestions !!! This is really a terrific community. I finally went for dual boot ... I didn't want to have to learn a new way of doing Perl; I have already enough to learn ! Installing Ubuntu v7.10 on my WinXP machine was a breeze; less than an hour ... and yes Ubuntu can read NTFS; write is still iffy. Thanks again to all who took the time to share !!! Life is tough, it's tougher when you are dumb... jfl	[reply]

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Re^3: Perl for Windows ?
by jflevi (Beadle) on Mar 05, 2008 at 01:32 UTC

I finally went for dual boot ... I didn't want to have to learn a new way of doing Perl; I have already enough to learn !

Installing Ubuntu v7.10 on my WinXP machine was a breeze; less than an hour ... and yes Ubuntu can read NTFS; write is still iffy.

Thanks again to all who took the time to share !!!

Life is tough, it's tougher when you are dumb...

jfl

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