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Perl 5 for Win32

Perl for Win32 was ported by ActiveWare Internet Corp. The goal of this project was to preserve as much functionality of the Unix version as possible in order to maintain compatiblity with the wealth of perl scripts available on the Internet.

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Information Sources

Perl-Win32-User and Perl-Win32-Announce mailing lists

These are mailing lists that reside at ActiveWare.com. To join the discussion for Perl-Win32-Users or Perl-Win32-Announce, send an email to ListManager@ActiveWare.com with the single line "JOIN Perl-Win32-Users" or "JOIN Perl-Win32-Announce" within the body of the message.

The Perl-Win32-Users mailing list is devoted to discussion relating specifically to Perl for Win32. Relevant issues include differences between basic functionality in Perl for Win32 and Perl on Unix platforms, Win32 specific extensions, and porting issues. For general help regarding programming in perl, please refer to the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc.

Perl for Win32 WWW Homepage

This site contains the latest archived information regarding Perl for Win32 including a FAQ list with answers. The URL for the site is http://www.ActiveWare.com/.

General Sources of Information

There is are a handful of newsgroups devoted to the perl programming language, they are:

comp.lang.perl.announce - Announcements (moderated) comp.lang.perl.misc - General Discussion comp.lang.perl.tk - Tk extensions

The comp.lang.perl.tk newsgroup is probably of little use to users of Perl for Win32, but the other two are indispensable sources of information.

The authoritative source for any and all Perl related-material is the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). Material stored by CPAN includes archives of the comp.lang.perl.* newsgroups, source code for various incarnations of perl and its extensions, extensive documentation, etc.

CPAN is mirrored at the following ftp sites, please select the one that is topographically or electronically closest to you:

Africa South Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/programming/perl/CPAN/ Asia Japan ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/lang/perl/CPAN/ Taiwan ftp://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/perl/CPAN/ Australasia Australia ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/perl/ ftp://ftp.mame.mu.oz.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ New Zealand ftp://ftp.tekotago.ac.nz/pub/perl/CPAN/ Europe Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ France ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/computing/unix/perl/CPAN/ Germany ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/programming/languages/perl/CPAN/ Great Britain ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/ the Netherlands ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/ Portugal ftp://ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/lang/perl/ Sweden ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ Switzerland ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/ North America Florida, USA ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ Illinois, USA ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ Massachusetts, USA ftp://ftp.delphi.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ Oklahoma, USA ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu/mirrors/CPAN/ Texas, USA ftp://ftp.sedl.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.sterling.com/programming/languages/perl/

The Perl FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list with answers is available at ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/faq/FAQ. Chances are that if you have a question regarding perl, it has already been answered before in this document. Please consult the FAQ before you pose a question to any of the newsgroups or mailing lists, it will help to both cut down in the turnaround time needed for you to obtain the desired information, and it will also cut down the unecessary clutter in the aforementioned fora.