Phoenix.pm: Installing Perl

[Beaves at aol.com]

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...

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