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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:01:58 +0800
From: Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
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Subject: Re: Can I use standard CPAN Perl modules?
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Garry Heaton wrote:

> When running Perl under Cygwin can I use standard CPAN modules or am I 
> limited to those compiled specifically for Cygwin? 

Cygwin has gcc so those modules requiring you to compile C code
can be built with cygwin.

> How about mod_perl? Can I 
> install a standard UNIX version?

First, have you been successful in installing Apache? I would
like to try installing it, but I am on Windows 98.

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