Re: Installing on Win95
Harald Joerg (Harald.Joerg@mch.sni.de)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 12:31:17 +0100
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> [...]
> If you're using Guru Sarathay's port of perl to win32, you'll note in the
> README file (you DID read the readme, didn't you?) that A) it comes with
> libwww already, B) its made to run on WinNT and is untested on Win95.
Though I would not claim to "test" it I can say it works quite well
on Win95. So far I've used quite a couple of modules and built some
from CPAN (e.g. libwww-perl 5.18 - the GSAR bundle has 5.13).
Gurusamy Sarathy's bundle comes with dmake, which is completely
sufficient to make libwww-perl and many other modules on Win95.
> [...]
> Guru's Perl5.004_02 port can be gotten from
> http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/win32/Standard but like I said, it probably
> won't work on Win95. From all reports I've heard about people using Guru's
> Perl on Win95, none of the networking stuff will work.
Then let me add a report: Some of the networking stuff works on Win95.
- libwww-perl (all you need for e.g. link checkers or HTTP daemons)
- Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, News::NNTPClient
Could you give an example of networking stuff which does not work?
Or any other evidence why you say it probably won't work on Win95?
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