<div>Ummm... Perl's fine. Windows 8 is easy enough, though I've run into problems while trying to install random programs because there is no start menu.<br /><br /></div>
<div class="replyBody">on Jan 10, 2014, <b>Tommy Butler</b> <dfwpm@internetalias.net> wrote:<br />
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sans-serif" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">What's it like running on Windows 8? Too early to tell?<br /> <br /> --Tommy Butler, who runs everything on Linux<br /> <br /> On 01/10/2014 05:27 PM, <a class="parsedEmailmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rickazevedo2@lycos.com" target="_blank">rickazevedo2@lycos.com</a> wrote:<br /> </span></div>
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<div><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I installed the 32 bit version of strawberry instead of the 64 bit version. Now I installed 64 bit, fixing the problem. Yeah!<br /> <br /> </span></div>
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<div class="replyBody"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">on Jan 10, 2014, <b>Tommy Butler</b> <a class="parsedEmailmoz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dfwpm@internetalias.net" target="_blank"><dfwpm@internetalias.net></a> wrote:<br /> </span>
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sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Don't run away too fast <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br /> <br /> Let us know what you find out and how your journey progresses. We care about helping you succeed. That's part of being a member of our community.<br /> <br /> --Tommy Butler<br /> <br /> On 01/10/2014 04:14 PM, <a class="parsedEmailmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rickazevedo2@lycos.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rickazevedo2@lycos.com</a> wrote:<br /> </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> I think I'm using Strawberry... will look at perlmonks.org. thx</span></div>
<div class="replyBody">on Jan 10, 2014, <b>Tommy Butler</b> <a class="parsedEmailmoz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dfwpm@internetalias.net" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><dfwpm@internetalias.net></a> wrote:<br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">I'm curious: Is there a particular reason why you are using ActiveState Perl instead of Strawberry?<br /> <br /> In addition to this list I aways recommend that questions be asked on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.perlmonks.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">www.perlmonks.org</a> as well. The site looks like it's straight out of the nineties, but it is actually tremendously useful. They have a few resident Perl-On-Windows gurus too.<br /> <br /> --Tommy Butler<br /> <br /> On 01/10/2014 02:05 PM, <a class="parsedEmailmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rickazevedo2@lycos.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rickazevedo2@lycos.com</a> wrote:<br /> </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Sorry, but I have no idea. Is the Perl executable in XP compatibility mode?<br /> <br /> </span></div>
<div class="replyBody"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">on Jan 10, 2014, <b>John Fields</b> <a class="parsedEmailmoz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wigthft@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><wigthft@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br /> </span>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,
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sans-serif">Well poo. Getting the version worked on Wednesday night.</span></p>
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Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">No, because you are telling what you have (win8) to treat the program as if it was running on XP. Or to actually be backward compatible for this one program. Because win8 doesn't look back. Like a shark it has no neck.<br /> (Futurama joke)</span></p>
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Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Try right clicking on the Perl.exe executable, select properties, compatibility tab, XP Service Pack 3 mode. Hmmmmmm.</span></p>
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Arial, sans-serif">perl -v gave me the same error message. Wouldn't XP Compatibility mode be wrong for Windows 8?<br /> <br /> </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Helvetica,
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Arial, sans-serif">on Jan 10, 2014, <b>John Fields</b> <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:wigthft@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">wigthft@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br /> </span>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hmmm. Just like Padre was doing at first.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Let's recheck: run "Perl -v" and see if it still gives you the version number and the paragraph of text.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">That should still work. If it doesn't then something is different since wed night. May need to apply the XP Compatibility mode setting to the Perl.exe file under c:\strawberry since win8 makes life hard just because it seems.</span></p>
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sans-serif">On Jan 10, 2014 11:10 AM, <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:rickazevedo2@lycos.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rickazevedo2@lycos.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" /> </span>
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<div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">With the command line open, I type "perl <a href="http://helloworld.pl" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">helloworld.pl</a>" (the name of the file) and hit enter. It gives me the "0xc000007" error message, refusing to execute the program. I looked up answers online and a lot of them are "reboot the machine" "try reinstalling" etc. I rebooted and it didn't fix anything. A registry-fixer was recommended but I decided to uninstall it after installing. It would be nice to have some help. Thank you. Rick Azevedo</span></div>
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