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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:23:45 +0000 (UTC)
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William Sutton <william <at> trilug.org> writes:

> 
> Having done a bit of this myself, I'm interested into enquiring further 
> into your difficulties.  Except for win32-specific modules, perl code 
> *should* *just work* for either cygwin perl of for ActiveState.  Last I 
> checked (and it's been about a year), you should be able to get the 
> win32-specific modules for cygwin as well, so I'm not sure why you can't 
> just invoke the script in your bash shell and have it run.

Thank you for your encouraging note. I would prefer to maintain only one Perl 
installation and would in fact be perfectly happy to dump AS in favor of 
Cygwin if I could do so without major pain. You have encouraged me to at least 
give it a try.


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