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Jim,
there are no instructions on your web page for installing PERL. Losing my Investing
Partition is VERY INCONVENIENT!! While I should be able to recover it, I will lose some
work. Plus I will have to download about 2-3 weeks of data from Quotes-Plus. This is
just another lesson telling us not to use software we are not familiar with.
Daniel.
Jim Michael wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Daniel Martinez wrote:
>
> > This is a warning to anyone who downloads the PERL Standard Distribution at
> > http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/ports/win32/Standard/x86/perl5.00402-bindist04-bc.zip
> >
> > There are over 2500 files in that ZIP. Why there are so many small files, I don't
> > know. If you unzip in the base directory, particularly using Norton Utilities, and
> > don't use the "folder" option, ALL of your directory entries will be pushed off,
> > erased. This is because only 512 entries are allowed in the base directory.
>
> The distribution contains many useful modules and well as complete
> documentation. When unzipping you should definitely maintain the
> directory structure. It is a good idea to unzip into an empty temporary
> directory and run install.bat from there (from the DOS prompt!). The
> install program is interactive and allows you to choose where the
> interpreter is to be installed. You will be asked if you have a C
> compiler. For most users, you may answer NO.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
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