From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
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Subject: Re: perl cpan
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 07:54:15 +0000 (UTC)
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Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> writes:

>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.

DJGPP ports of lynx and wget are available from my webpage. You can
also get a different port of wget for DJGPP as part of the binaries
package of watt-32. Lynx packaged for automated installation is
available from John Lewis as "bobcat386". FTP for DJGPP is in the
WATT-32 binaries package. I am not sure if ncftp has been ported to
DJGPP. Note that the networking programs are for working under plain
DOS and do not work with the Windows winsock from a DOS box unless you
also install Dan Lanciani's virtual packet driver ndis3pkt.

See my page at: "http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html".
See the main WATT-32 page at "http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/".
See John Lewis' webpage at: "http://www.qsl.net/ve3lgs/index.html".
See Dan Lanciani's webpage at: "http://www.danlan.com/".

                           Doug

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