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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:37:26 -0600
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From: Dmitry Epstein <mitia AT northwestern DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package
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At 11:24 AM 12/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Why not use Cygwin perl?  Cygwin comes with a perfectly nice perl 5.8,
>which works at least as well as ActiveState's perl.  You could even
>associate Cygwin's perl with .pl files in Explorer, to completely replace
>ActivePerl.
>         Igor

ActivePerl has more pre-installed modules (I presume) plus a nice package 
manager.  And better support too.

Dmitry


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