From: ssmith AT galina DOT enet DOT dec DOT com (Sheldon E. Smith)
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Subject: Re: PERL Question
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 05:02:25 GMT
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In article <199801161701 DOT SAA23507 AT d1o24 DOT telia DOT com>, deniro AT innocent DOT com wrote:
>Hi
>I have a question regarding PERL. I have never used PERL but i want 
>to create my own CGI scripts. My question is if I can use 
>perl5xxx.zip iv heard of here. And can i develope CGI scripts in 
>MS/DOS using it? Well any information would be great that deals with 
>PERL for beginner. And Im not a beginner in programming just PERL.

I don't know about CGI scripting, but I've got PERL54B (V5.004_02) loaded 
on my Win95 system. Most of the Unix Perl functionality is there.

The Randall Schwartz' "Learning Perl" book (O'Reilly & Associates) is one 
very good book for learning the basics of Perl.