On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, John Seeliger wrote: > I have had cygwin installed on this PC for quite some time, but hadn't > updated it for a while. I wanted to run yahoo2mbox.pl and found it wouldn't > work with the perl 5.6.1 I had installed, so I downloaded ActivePerl 5.8.?
Why? Cygwin has Perl 5.8.? as well... > and tried running the script from a Windows XP prompt, but it used the > cygwin perl. Make sure ActivePerl appears in the WinXP PATH variable before Cygwin's /bin. > So, I just copied the ActivePerl over the cygwin perl (yeah, I know, not > a good idea) and then it still wouldn't work because some of the lib > files used by it weren't there either. I copied a few of those as well, > but still to no avail. Yep, not a good idea. > Have I just hosed my cygwin? You did hose Cygwin's perl. > Will downloading the updated perl help? Downloading and reinstalling the perl package should fix this. You can install version 5.8.0-5, BTW. > How can I download just perl without going through the installer and > selecting "keep" on every single other item? Use the "Keep" view of the installer. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/