I'd like to get my feet wet with a decent pre-built binary Perl
before I try building my own from sources. At the moment
I'm stuck with a Win98 SE platform to run it on. I found several
possibilities at www.cpan.org , but since I'm a Perl beginner
I'm not well prepared to judge their relative merits.
I would appreciate any advice that would help me make an
appropriate choice for my initial learning. I am particulary
interested in using Perl to connect directly to email and news
servers to retrieve messages, so I'll want a Perl that has good
networking support. I do have considerable experience
programming in other languages for both Windoze and Unix, and
I have read the RFC's that define the SMTP, POP and NNTP
client/server interactions.
Jude
