Where is the Perl for Win32 interpreter available?
The Perl for Win32 package is available as a ZIP archive by anonymous FTP from ActiveWare and from CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. To download from ActiveWare, look in this directory: ftp://ftp.activeware.com/ntperl/perl5.001m/CurrentBuild/ There are 4 distribution packages: one for Intel x86 machines, one for DEC Alpha machines, one for PowerPC machines, and one source code package. These packages are named XXX-i86.zip, XXX-Alp.zip, XXX-Ppc.zip, and XXX-src.zip, respectively, where XXX is the current build number. The current build number is 110. To download files from CPAN, go to the following URL: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/win32/Perl5/perl5.001m/CurrentBuild/ Note that this will automatically redirect you to your nearest CPAN mirror site. 1.5. How do I unzip the Perl for Win32 package? Because the Perl for Win32 package contains long file names (LFNs), normal zip file handlers like PKZip will not open them correctly. [Does the newest version of PKZip handle LFNs c
