Peter Dove wrote: > > You might see whether the MKS Toolkit perl distribution > (http://www.mks.com/) will support the necessary ops. They do have very > unix-like make and shell (C and Korn) environments. If you're going to consider MKS, you should check out UWin from att.research. Provides much of the functionality of MKS, has a more compliant ksh (D. Korn is lead developer of Uwin) and the price is much better, it's free. > > Just my 2c - just a perl non-power user. > Peter > > Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > > > Marc Lehmann writes: > > > (Also there are different ports of perl to win32). Basically, it requires > > > somebody who just loves win32 and perl to check it out ;) > > > > Well, I can't say I love Win32, but I do like Perl ;-) When I tried > > (must have been a year ago, I think) the first hurdle was porting the > > Gtk Perl module. As I don't know much about building Perl modules on > > Win32, I gave up. (In a cygwin environment, it probably is as simple > > as on Unix, perl Makefile.PL etc, but in a "pure" Win32 environment, > > d'oh.) > > > > I could try again... > > > > --tml -- Until later: Geoffrey esoteric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein