On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:52, Aaron Bazar wrote:
> Perl is open source software. Microsoft would never include it because
> they cannot make money.

Microsoft includes (ActivePerl) PERL 5.6.0 with the Services for Unix
add-on ($99US).  They also include GCC and some other GNU tools along
with a full suite of proprietary Unix utilities.  There's currently a
free beta version of SFU 3.5.  Really only worth the money if you're
(permanently) porting Unix software to Windows or if you need Windows to
access (or become) Unix NFS, LPR, NIS, etc servers.

Microsoft SFU:
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/


> Perl for Windows is available from
> http://www.activestate.com/

That's certainly the way to go.  Microsoft has a Knowledge Base article
which explains how to configure IIS for ActivePerl:
  http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q245/2/25.asp

NOTE: If you installed SWISH-E before you installed ActivePerl then
rerun the SWISH-E installation after ActivePerl is installed.  The
SWISH-E 2.4 Windows installer will detect ActivePerl and install the
Perl modules to the appropriate locations.

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