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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Daniel Martinez wrote:
> 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.
Perl is extensively documented at http://www.perl.com/. I agree that you
should not use or install software until you have read the documentation.
It would also be a good idea to read the documentation that comes with
your zip utility and know a little about the file system of your OS of
choice. If you are not capable of reading and understanding the
documentation it would be a good idea to find someone to help you out
with the installation. This should apply to all software you use.
An advantage of using Perl is that once installed you have a library of
very powerful modules that can perform difficult procedures in just a few
lines of code. Your are not forced to download multi-megabyte files for
each application. Instead you need only download a few kilobyte script file.
Cheers,
Jim
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