From: "Ian" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3E503782 DOT F699D0E7 AT yahoo DOT com> Subject: Re: perl - starting up? Lines: 29 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: <4BSba.4397$Mz.620371@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:07:50 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.230.74.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT sympatico DOT ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1047524800 64.230.74.174 (Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:06:40 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:06:40 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com perl is a bit like Bash shell script. I've not got the hang of either to be an expert. From what I can see you can do with perl all that a Bash script can do plus a lot more. There are also perl sort of add ons that do all sorts of clever stuff that I've not got into yet, including yanking stuff off the web There is lots on the subject on the web. The last time I looked the dj port did not find all its functions but the Active perl DOS port did better. I had the impression that to really use perl you should be under Unix. "CBFalconer" wrote in message news:3E503782 DOT F699D0E7 AT yahoo DOT com... > I have never used Perl, and haven't the faintest idea what, how, > when, where, why, and to whom it does anything. I just installed > it on the DJGPP system here, and info tells me nothing. The man > pages are impossible, even after being excruciatingly slow. Perl > --help is not extremely illuminating either. > > So I need to know where that upper left corner is on which I can > nibble. There must be something that came out of that 6 megabyte > perl561b.zip of immediate use. > > -- > Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) > Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. > USE worldnet address! >