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- <LI><A href="#What_is_Perl_">What is Perl?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#Where_can_I_get_tons_of_informat">Where can I get tons of information about
- Perl?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#Where_is_the_Perl_for_Win32_inte">Where can I get the ActivePerl interpreter?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#What_do_I_get_with_ActiveState_s">What do I get with ActivePerl?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#How_do_I_install_the_Perl_for_Wi">How do I install ActivePerl?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#How_can_I_customize_my_installat">How can I customize my installation of
- ActivePerl?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#How_do_I_uninstall_Perl_for_Win3">How do I uninstall ActivePerl?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#What_is_ActiveX_Scripting_">What is ActiveX Scripting?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#Is_there_an_ActiveX_Scripting_ve">Is there an ActiveX Scripting version of Perl
- available?</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#When_I_double_click_the_perl_exe">When I double-click the perl.exe icon in
- Explorer, I get</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#How_can_I_get_Perl_to_run_a_Perl">How can I get Perl to run a Perl script at the
- 4DOS command line by</A></LI>
- <LI><A href="#Can_I_build_perl_from_the_source">Can I build perl from the source code?</A></LI>
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- <LI><A href="#AUTHOR_AND_COPYRIGHT">AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT</A></LI>
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- <P>ActivePerl faq1 - Availability and Installation</P>
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- <P>Getting, installing, and using Perl.</P>
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- <H2><A name="What_is_Perl_">What is Perl?</A></H2>
- <P>Perl is a scripting language widely used for system administration and programming on the World
- Wide Web. It originated in the UNIX community and has a strong UNIX slant, but usage on Windows is
- growing rapidly. ActivePerl is a port of core Perl to Windows.</P>
- <P>perl (small 'p') is the program used to interpret the Perl language.</P>
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- <H2><A name="Where_can_I_get_tons_of_informat">Where can I get tons of information about Perl?</A></H2>
- <P>Extensive online documentation is included with Perl itself. You can read the documentation with
- the <CODE>perldoc</CODE> command, as in <CODE>perldoc document_name</CODE>. You should start with
- the perl document and the perlfaq document. For information on other ways of accessing the Perl
- documentation (including HTML versions of this documentation), see <A href="ActivePerl-faq3.html#Where_can_I_get_documentation_on">Where
- can I get documentation on ActivePerl?</A>.</P>
- <P>To get more information about Perl, check out these URLs:</P>
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- <LI>
- <P><A href="http://www.ActiveState.com">http://www.ActiveState.com</A> - The ActivePerl Home
- Page.</P>
- </LI>
- <LI>
- <P><A href="http://www.perl.com">http://www.perl.com</A> - The Perl home page.</P>
- </LI>
- <LI>
- <P><A href="http://language.perl.com">http://language.perl.com</A> - The Perl language home
- page.</P>
- </LI>
- <LI>
- <P><A href="http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/Perl/">http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/Perl/</A>
- - The Yahoo Perl page.</P>
- </LI>
- </UL>
- <P>There are several good books about Perl. The premier book on ActivePerl is <EM>Learning Perl On
- Win32 Systems</EM> By Schwartz, Olson, and Christiansen (O'Reilly & Associates, 1997). This is
- the Gecko book, and has a picture of a gecko (little chubby lizard with big toes and a smile) on the
- front cover.</P>
- <P>For general perl, two books to consider are <EM>Programming Perl</EM>, 2nd Edition, by Larry
- Wall, Tom Christiansen and Randal L. Schwartz (O'Reilly & Associates, 1996) and <EM>Learning
- Perl</EM>, by Randal L. Schwartz (O'Reilly & Associates, 1993). These are referred to by Perl
- enthusiasts as the Camel book and the Llama book, respectively.</P>
- <P>If you are new to Perl and there are any terms mentioned in this FAQ that you don't get, try one
- of the above resources. See the <EM>perlbook</EM> document that comes with Perl for more
- information.</P>
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- <H2><A name="Where_is_the_Perl_for_Win32_inte">Where can I get the ActivePerl interpreter?</A></H2>
- <P>ActivePerl is available from the ActiveState home page.</P>
- <P>To download ActivePerl from ActiveState, look in this directory:</P>
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- <A href="http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl">http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl</A>
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- <H2><A name="What_do_I_get_with_ActiveState_s">What do I get with ActivePerl?</A></H2>
- <P>ActivePerl is a complete, self-installing distribution of Perl based on the standard Perl
- sources. It is distributed online at the ActiveState site.</P>
- <P>"Perl for Win32" generally refers to ActivePerl for Windows.</P>
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- <H2><A name="How_do_I_install_the_Perl_for_Wi">How do I install ActivePerl?</A></H2>
- <P> </P>
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- <H2><A name="Can_I_build_perl_from_the_source">Can I build perl from the source code?</A></H2>
- <P>The Perl source code includes complete instructions on building Perl. You can obtain the latest
- Perl source from:</P>
- <PRE>
- <A href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz">http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz</A>
- </PRE>
- <P>Once you extract the source, read the <EM>README</EM> file for instructions on compiling Perl.</P>
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- <H1><A name="AUTHOR_AND_COPYRIGHT">AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT</A></H1>
- <P>This FAQ was originally assembled and maintained by Evangelo Prodromou. It has been revised and
- updated by Brian Jepson of O'Reilly & Associates, David Grove, David Dmytryshyn and David Sparks
- of ActiveState.</P>
- <P>This FAQ is in the public domain. If you use it, however, please ensure that you give credit to
- the original authors.</P>
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