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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 ?
: 	
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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