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Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package

At 11:24 AM 12/16/02 -0500, you wrote:

Why not use Cygwin perl?  Cygwin comes with a perfectly nice perl 5.8,
which works at least as well as ActiveState's perl.  You could even
associate Cygwin's perl with .pl files in Explorer, to completely replace
ActivePerl.
        Igor
ActivePerl has more pre-installed modules (I presume) plus a nice package manager. And better support too.

Dmitry


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