[oak perl] ActiveState 5.8.6

[Mark Bole]

Sandy Santra wrote:

> Thanks, Belden, I forgot about that other install program.
>
> But I'm concerned I don't meet this requirement:
>
> PerlScript: ActiveX scripting host such as IE 4.0+, or Windows 
> Scripting Host
>
> I don't have IE on the Win95 machine I'm installing it on.
>
> At 10:37 AM 2/8/05 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:02, Sandy Santra wrote:
>> > I'm trying to install ActiveState 5.8.6 Perl on a Win95 machine, 
>> but the
>> > installation stops and says "Windows Scripting Host" isn't present.
>> >
>> [...]
>
You might be better off using a Perl that is contemporaneous with Win95. 
I have a zip install file of the following version (quoted below), if 
you are interested I can figure out a way to get it to you -- it's a 
little over 1 MB in size.  The outfit "Hip Communications" which did 
this port for Microsoft appears to be long gone... 
http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/mpubpaper/part2/intro.html

The distribution includes a 32-bit shell wrapper specifically to 
circumvent the problems with 16-bit COMMAND.COM under Win95.

Somewhere in a backup directory I think I still even have a pure DOS 
version of Perl 4 from the early 90's, I think it was called "BigPerl" 
or something like that.

> This is perl, version 5.001
>         Unofficial patchlevel 1m.
> Copyright 1987-1994, Larry Wall
> Win32 port Copyright (c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>         Developed by hip communications inc., http://info.hip.com/info/
>         Perl for Win32 Build 110
>         Built Aug 13 1996 at 08:18:50

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Mark Bole
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