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- You are reading: README.TXT
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- This file gives an overview of Perl for Win32
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- It includes the following:
- Conditions for use of Perl for Win32
- Acknowledgements
- Platforms Supported
- System Requirements
- Differences between/additions to the UNIX version
- Listing of other documents in this Kit
- Submit comments and feedback on Perl for Win32
- Where to get more information
-
- For information on installing Perl for Win32, please refer to the file "INSTALL.TXT".
-
- To see what has been included in this release of Perl for Win32, please
- see the file "RELEASE.TXT".
-
- Windows 95 users, be sure to check "WIN95.TXT".
-
- The entire Perl 5 manual can be viewed with your WWW browser of choice (i.e.
- Netscape) by opening the file "PerlW32.html" in the 'docs\Perl-Win32' directory.
-
- "Windows NT" is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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- Conditions for use of Perl for Win32, PerlScript and Perl for ISAPI Packages
- ============================================================================
-
-
- 'Perl for Win32', 'PerlScript', 'Perl for ISAPI', and 'ActiveWare'
- are trademarks of ActiveWare Internet Corp. Any use of these trademarks
- requires written permission from ActiveWare Internet Corp.
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- Portions (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- Developed by ActiveWare Internet Corp., http://www.ActiveWare.com
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of either:
-
- a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
- Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
- later version, or
-
- b) the "Artistic License" included in this kit.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either
- the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this
- Kit, in the file named "LICENSE.txt". If not, we'll be glad to provide
- one.
-
- You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License,
- our interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl
- script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put
- said script under the terms of the GPL yourself. Furthermore, any
- object code linked with perl does not automatically fall under the
- terms of the GPL, provided such object code only adds definitions
- of subroutines and variables, and does not otherwise impair the
- resulting interpreter from executing any standard Perl script. We
- consider linking in C subroutines in this manner to be the moral
- equivalent of defining subroutines in the Perl language itself. You
- may sell such an object file as proprietary provided that you provide
- or offer to provide the Perl source, as specified by the GNU General
- Public License. (This is merely an alternate way of specifying input
- to the program.) You may also sell a binary produced by the dumping of
- a running Perl script that belongs to you, provided that you provide or
- offer to provide the Perl source as specified by the GPL. (The
- fact that a Perl interpreter and your code are in the same binary file
- is, in this case, a form of mere aggregation.) This is our interpretation
- of the GPL. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding
- our intent, feel free to contact us. Of course, the Artistic License
- spells all this out for your protection, so you may prefer to use that.
-
-
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-
- Acknowledgments
- ===============
-
- Thanks to Larry Wall for making this possible, as well as all the perl5porters
- (especially Tim Bunce).
-
- Clark Williams from Intergraph and Dean Troyer from Honeywell for their work
- on porting Perl 4 to Windows NT, and their help in this port.
-
- Perl for Win32 Team: Dick Hardt, Douglas Lankshear.
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- Platforms supported
- ===================
-
- Perl for Win32 is currently available as a compiled binary for the following platforms:
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- Intel 80x86
- ALPHA
-
- The source code should compile on any platform supported by Windows NT.
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- System Requirements
- ===================
-
- To run Perl for Win32, you will need a computer running Windows NT
- Workstation/Server 3.5 or later, with at least 2 MB of disk space free.
-
- If you plan on building from the source, the amount of disk space required
- increases to at least 10 MB.
-
- Perl for Win32 was built using Microsoft Visual C++ version 4.2.
- The source release of Perl for Win32 includes the source files and
- test scripts. There is also a makefile for building Perl for Win32 from the SDK.
-
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- Differences between/additions to the UNIX distribution
- ======================================================
-
- This port of Perl for Win32 is based upon the UNIX distribution of Perl 5.
- Any modifications made to the UNIX distribution will be submitted to the UNIX
- porting team so that they may be included when their next port is released.
-
- Perl scripts written under UNIX terminate lines with a line feed.
- Win32, however, terminates text lines with two characters: a carriage
- return AND a line feed. Be warned: if you are moving Perl scripts over to
- your Win32 machine from UNIX, you may have some reformatting to do!
-
- Since not all of the functions from the UNIX version of Perl 5 have analogs in
- the Win32 realm, we've left some unimplemented! A list of all functions
- NOT implemented in this release can be found in "STATUS.TXT".
-
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-
- Listing of other documents:
- ===========================
-
- INSTALL.txt Instructions for installing Perl for Win32
- LICENSE.txt The GNU "General Public License" and "Artistic License"
- PerlW32.html First page of Perl for Win32 HTML documentation,
- including the original Perl 5 Manual Pages, and our
- extensions to Perl 5. This file and the rest of the
- HTML pages are located in the 'docs\Perl-Win32'
- subdirectory.
- RELEASE.txt Perl for Win32 revision history, changes since
- last release, and plans for future releases.
- STATUS.txt List of unsupported functions and features.
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-
- Submitting comments and feedback on Perl for Win32
- ==================================================
-
- All questions, comments, and feedback can be sent to Perl-Win32-users@ActiveWare.com,
- or to the discussion list (see below for information on how to subscribe).
-
- Bug reports can be mailed to perl@ActiveWare.com
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Where to get more info
- ======================
-
- By Mail:
- ~~~~~~~~
- If you are interested in the latest news on Perl for Win32, we have set
- up two lists:
-
- perl-win32-users - discussion list
-
- send mail to: ListManager@ActiveWare.com
-
- with: JOIN perl-win32-users
-
- as the message body
-
- or with: DIGEST perl-win32-users
-
- as the message body to join in digest mode
-
-
- perl-win32-announce - announcements
-
- send mail to: ListManager@ActiveWare.com
-
- with: JOIN perl-win32-announce
-
- as the message body
-
- In print:
- ~~~~~~~~~
- There are two good books by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. about Perl: "Learning
- Perl", and "Programming Perl", both by Randal Schwartz and Larry Wall.
- O'Reilly's web site is http://www.ora.com.
-
-
- By Usenet Newsgroups:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.perl is your best place to get help on Perl,
- although it is soon to be depreciated in use, to be replaced by
- comp.lang.perl.announce and comp.lang.perl.misc.
-
-
- On the World Wide Web:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Perl Meta-FAQ
- (http://www.khoros.unm.edu/staff/neilb/perl/metaFAQ/metaFAQ.html)
-
- Perl5 Information, Announcements, and Discussion
- (http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/perl5.html)
-
- PERL Man pages
- (http://www.metronet.com/0/perlinfo/perl5/manual/perl.html)
-
- Perl reference materials
- (http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/perl/perl.html)
-
- UF/NA Perl Archive
- (http://www.cis.ufl.edu:80/perl/)
-
-
- Via FTP:
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt351/
- ftp://ftp.khoros.unm.edu/pub/perl/
- ftp://perl.com/pub/perl/
- ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/
- ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/ports/
- ftp://ftp.khoros.unm.edu/pub/perl/
- ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/perl5/
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