Phoenix.pm: Installing Perl

[Doug and Julie Miles]

At 08:04 PM 10/20/99 EDT, you wrote:
>OK.  Those of you who have met me in person can probably attest to me being 
>just plain dangerous when it comes to some things about computer literacy.  
>(Telnet being just one of them, with or without peanut brittle crunching 
>inside my head.)
>
>In attempting to load a module, I got a message saying that I needed Perl 
>5.004 for the latest DBI.pm version to work.  OK, no problem, I say.  I'll 
>just load up Perl 5.004 on my machine and we'll be on our way.  Except
that I 
>can't figure out for the life of me what I need to do.   This is after 
>reading as many readme files as there are hairs on my ass... OK that's a bad 
>analogy...

You might be going about this the hard way.  Just get the precompiled
ActiveState version.  This is what it has to say on the download page:

The latest release of ActivePerl is 521. This build is based on Perl
5.005_03. 

That should cover it.  Then go back to installing DBI.

>I'm running Windows 95.
>
>Refering to the CPAN page:
>http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/Porting/README.dos.html
>
>It tells me to set:
>    LFN=y
>before un-zipping.   WHUHH?! 
>
>Also, it says next
><<Create a ``symlink'' or copy your bash.exe to sh.exe in your ($DJDIR)/bin 
><<directory: 
><<    ln -s bash.exe sh.exe
>
>But those look like UNIX commands to me.
>
>Just about the entire "Building" section of this page does not make any
sense 
>to me.
>
>All in all, this has not been the most productive of days.
>
>It can't be that hard to do, but I'm apparently lacking in the assumed 
>knowledge and skill.
>
>Any help would be appreciated..
>
>Tim
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