On Thursday 04 October 2001 12:58 am, Amit Joshi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm an IC design engineer. My working platform is unix. > > I want to learn Perl for being able to write scripts in unix > environment. > > I have a windows98 PC at home and want to download a perl compiler/ > interpreter (whatever needs to be downloaded) in order to be able > to write and try perl scripts. I have already downloaded a perl tutorial. > > > Where can I find a suitable compiler/interpreter that I can > download/unstall on my PC in order for me to be able to keep > going with lerning perl ?? > > Please let me know. > > Thanks and regards, > > Amit. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
You actually have 2 options here, that *I* know of ;-). One is http://www.activestate.com makers of ActivePerl, its nice but not all of the modules are available. Second is Cygwin, which is the better bet, especially since you are wanting to learn to write Perl for Unix. Cygwin, http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ , is basically a way to run Unix on Windows, it comes with Perl, all of the standard GNU build tools, bash, even XFree86 has been ported to Cygwin so you can write Perl/Tk or wxPerl apps that will run on Unix. -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer ============================= Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
