www.activestate.com is where you should look....
hth,
Jos Boumans
Jude Suszko wrote:
> 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
