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However, when entering perl -v I get the message perl is not recognised ... , so I guess I have not installed it correctly.
Not necessarily. It just means that inside *that* shell where you had tried the command, it's not in the PATH. What happens if you use the absolute path to perl.exe? I guess you *know* where you had it installed to?

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Re^4: Command prompt q.
by jonabb (Novice) on Jun 05, 2012 at 02:47 UTC

    Thanks for these comments.

    Now that I look more closely at the command prompt window, I see that it shows the path "C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" (at the top border of the window frame)

    Whereas i am running 64-bit Windows, and the Active Perl is the 64-bit version

    So i need to somehow change the path name. How do I do that, pls?

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      Try typing C:\perl64\bin\perl -v at the prompt
      poj
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        Thanks. When I came back to work on this today, I found that I had a window with simply 'command prompt' at the top border and everything looking like it should.

        And sure enough, when I entered the usual command, the program did what it should.

        So my thanks to you and the others for talking me through this. Much appreciated. Jon

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