Hi there Wiggins,
Thank you for your advice, I have heard of Cygwin and tried to visit their
site but it says it can't find the domain. Will try later. I have also heard
of ActiveState. I am wanting to develop pure CGI programs with Perl (when i
finally learn it), is this setup still good for this
"...what is the best method for getting
Perl up and running on WinXP box that will allow me to then upload to my
webspace on the Linux box?" --Anthoni
Hi Anthoni,
I would recommend ActiveState ActivePerl installation. It installs well on Windows.
It also ignores the comment line that Unix use
Many Windows perl'ers advocate ActiveState's ActivePerl which is very
fine, I would suggest using Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) if you wanted
to most closely simulate the linux environment under windows. It comes
with a nice installer, and will give you many of the command line
utilities you w
Hi there Coders,
I am totally new to Perl programming, but know the following languages.
Java, Visual Basic and Pascal / Delphi. I also know a smidgin of C. I have
ordered a book from Amazon that will teach me, but before it arrives I would
like to dabble a bit.
I have some webspace on a Unix / L
