Appendix C. Installing Perl for Windows
This appendix explains how to obtain and install Perl for the Windows platform, sometimes known as Win32 Perl. Perl for Windows will run on Windows NT or Windows 95/98, although it is slightly more robust on Windows NT (I found very little that was different between the two platforms).
With the release of version 5.005 of Perl, Windows support has been incorporated into the core Perl source code tree, and is up to date with the Unix version. Previously, there had been several different versions of Perl for Windows, with each version supporting different features and lagging behind the Unix platform in different ways. The merged 5.005 version made a tremendous difference in stability and support for the ...
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