=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 1997/03/25 18:15:48 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.16 $, $Date: 1997/04/23 18:04:09 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
find this at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz, which is a
gzipped archive in POSIX tar format. This source builds with no
porting whatsoever on most Unix systems (Perl's native environment),
-as well as Plan 9, VMS, QNX, OS/2, and the Amiga.
-
-Although it's rumored that the (imminent) 5.004 release may build
-on Windows NT, this is yet to be proven. Binary distributions
-for 32-bit Microsoft systems and for Apple systems can be found
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/ directory. Because these are not part of
-the standard distribution, they may and in fact do differ from the base
-Perl port in a variety of ways. You'll have to check their respective
-release notes to see just what the differences are. These differences
-can be either positive (e.g. extensions for the features of the particular
-platform that are not supported in the source release of perl) or negative
-(e.g. might be based upon a less current source release of perl).
-
-A useful FAQ for Win32 Perl users is
+as well as Windows NT, Plan 9, VMS, QNX, OS/2, and the Amiga.
+
+Binary distributions for various platforms can be found
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/ directory. Some of these ports (especially
+the ones that are not part of the standard sources) may behave differently
+than what is documented in the standard source documentation. These
+differences can be either positive (e.g. extensions for the features of the
+particular platform that are not supported in the source release of perl)
+or negative (e.g. might be based upon a less current source release of perl).
+
+A useful FAQ for Win32 Perl users is:
http://www.endcontsw.com/people/evangelo/Perl_for_Win32_FAQ.html
+[This FAQ is seriously outdated as of Jan 1998--it is only relevant to
+the perl that ActiveState distributes, especially where it describes
+various inadequacies and differences with the standard perl extension
+build support.]
=head2 How can I get a binary version of Perl?
=head2 Perl Books
-A number books on Perl and/or CGI programming are available. A few of
+A number of books on Perl and/or CGI programming are available. A few of
these are good, some are ok, but many aren't worth your money. Tom
Christiansen maintains a list of these books, some with extensive
reviews, at http://www.perl.com/perl/critiques/index.html.
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/
+http:/www.oasis.leo.org/perl/ has, amongst other things, source to
+versions 1 through 5 of Perl.
+
=head2 What mailing lists are there for perl?
Most of the major modules (tk, CGI, libwww-perl) have their own
=item Perl-Packrats
Discussion related to archiving of perl materials, particularly the
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