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af137@torfree.net (Al Aab) wrote:

>Milko Kretschmann (milko@telebyte.nl) wrote:
>: Hello Everybody

>: I'd like to learn unix and perl. The point is however that I'm working under windows on a 386. My question 
>: therefore is twofold.

>: First,  I'd like to run unix or linux on it as well. Can I download a (simple) version of them somewhere ? And 
>: how would I proceed then; can I download under windows or dos  and from there install the program ?

>linux is the most popular freeware version of unix.
>u can download it but it is better if you buy it on CDRoms, some of those 
>CD editions come on as many as 5 cd's.  meaning they are not compressed,
>meaning  you can work from the CDRom player (albeit slowly), meaning you
>do not have to have a huge hard disk.

>if you just need certain UNIX a utility, like perl, sed, etc
>most of  those are available under project gnuish, & even before & after
>the inception of project gnuish.

>surf the web.  SIMTEL has a subdirectory dos\gnuish.

>the biggest file of UNIX for dos, could be emacs (several megs) followed by 
>sh or ksh or bash (less than a meg, zipped).  But not everyone is crazy 
>about those.



>: Second, if there is no solution to the first problem, is there a perl-interpreter that runs under dos/windows 
>: and if so can I download it from somewhere ?

I have tried several times over the past year or so to make the DOS
versions of perl work properly.  My _opinion_ is that it is probably a
waste of time to mess around with perl in the DOS side of things.

Fortunately I have Linux and FreeBSD on my machine at home, and
can do my perl stuff there.  I would be very nice to be able to hack
on my Win95 laptop, but so far I am not optomistic about the chances
of that.

If anyone has been using perl successfully under DOS, please correct
me!

>: 	
>yes.
>there might even be a newsgroup for perl, you may like to post 
>there, if u cannot find/like its faq. 

>if you know SIMTEL, OAK or other shareware web sites, you can sure download
>perl 4 or perl 5.

>Happy perling
>!

>: Thanks in advance,

>: Milko Kretschmann.

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