Kegs, John ASPN Perl is a professional tool that you have to pay for. It includes Komodo and the Dev Kit - very nice but very expensive. If you have no budget then you want just ActivePerl from here:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ Click on 'Download' at the top left to fetch the installation. (You don't need to fill int he form if you don't want to.) HTH, Rob "Kegs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 20:41, John Tafasi wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > I am quite new to perl. I will use "Learning Perl, 3rd edition" and my laptop that is running windows 98. > > Is that the O'Reilly book with the Llama on the cover? If so that is one > of the best books for starting Perl with IMHO. > > > What exactly the name of the file i should download to install perl into win98? Where can I download it? > > Go to www.activestate.com and follow the links for ASPN Perl, works well > on win32 boxes, and the package manager is very good for when you start > to want modules not included as standard. > > > Any other recommended tutorials for beginners > > Well the Camel book; Programming Perl 3rd ed, also by O'Reilly is very > good, even if you have no previous programming experience, as it > explains everything clearly in fairly plain language. > > also the links below are useful:- > > http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Tutorials > > http://www.perl.com/pub/q/resources > > http://webknowhow.net/dir/Perl/Tutorials/Beginner/ > > HTH > > -- > James > [EMAIL PROTECTED] invert to reply > > Linux- 'Cos Micro$oft is for Capitalists running DOS > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]