You need to add perl to your %PATH% or give it an explicite path name such as c:\> \perl\bin\perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";" JW
Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From what I can remember I am running MSDOS version 6.0 (I thank) and the version of >perl is perl 5.8 But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error messagethat states that I have entered a bad command or filename what I am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";" And then I get the error message. I must be doing something wrong but I can not figure out what it is. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs