Re: totally off topic email question

[Erik Hemdal]

>  Gene Heskett wrote:
>  >>Perl is available for windows in the most obvious place you 
>  would look 
>  >>for a perl download.
>  > 
>  > cpan I'd assume then?
>  
>  Well, that's a little like looking for rpm in a yum 
>  repository.  I was thinking of perl.com.
>   
I think what you want is activestate.com and look for ActivePerl.  There may
be other Windows ports, but ActivePerl is the one I've used.  To update it,
use the PPM tool; CPAN will give you source code that you quite probably
won't be able to install without a compiler of some sort.

Erik