Hi Leila, I am using win2000 and the page you provided a link to says that I don't need any other stuff.
Actually, it seemed to have installed fine for me as well. I just have to cd\ into Perl\bin in order to use it. I took a peek a ActiveState's user forum to see if I could get some advice, but it really doesn't seem VeryActive. Thanks, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leila Lappin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: Re: ActivePerl problem > Hi Mark, > > I downloaded ActivePerl yesterday and it seems to work, though I haven't > tested any scripts with it yet. I thought it might help to check what was > downloaded. I downloaded my copy from > http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ActivePerl&a=e > After reading the documentation I downloaded InstMsi.exe first and then > ActivePerl-5.6.1.631-MSWin32-x86.msi after that. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:47 PM > Subject: ActivePerl problem > > > > Hi, > > > > I can't seem to get ActivePerl working on my win2k machine. > > > > I checked my enviroment variables and found it not there. I edited my > ev's > > to include Perl: > > C:\Perl\bin and tried C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe; > > > > I tried it both as User and as Admin. > > > > I tried perl -v to test it out in both cases and got: > > > > 'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable > > program or batch file. > > > > But if I cd\Perl\bin and then type perl -v at the prompt while in that dir > > it works. > > > > What else do I have to do to get it working properly? It would be nice to > > be able to test scripts and stuff without having to cd\ into the proper > > directory. Who knows what other trouble I could cause myself once I > > actually get it working. > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
