From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: perl cpan
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:08:04 +0100
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Hello.

Ian wrote:
>     I'm trying out cpan functionality on perl 5.6.1.  During configuration
> cpan was asking the path to lynx, wget, ncftpget, ncftp and the like.  I
> know where make and tar are but these are new to me.  Is there the
> equivalent of file-utilities a sort of ftp-utilities that I can pull over?

No.

A port of Lynx exists that will run under plain DOS. I don't have a URL to
hand.

You can download the Windows port of wget from here:

    http://space.tin.it/computer/hherold/

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]