=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.30 $, $Date: 1998/12/29 19:43:32 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.31 $, $Date: 1999/04/14 03:46:19 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
http://www.perl.com/latest/
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/
-If you want information on proprietary systems. A simple installation
-guide for MS-DOS is available at http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet/perl5dos.html
+Someone looking for a Perl for Win16 might look to LMOLNAR's djgpp
+port in http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/msdos/ , which comes with clear
+installation instructions. A simple installation guide for MS-DOS using
+IlyaZ's OS/2 port is available at http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet/perl5dos.html
and similarly for Windows 3.1 at http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet/perlwin3.html .
=head2 I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
=head2 Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
-In a real sense, Perl already I<is> commercial software: It has a licence
+In a real sense, Perl already I<is> commercial software: It has a license
that you can grab and carefully read to your manager. It is distributed
in releases and comes in well-defined packages. There is a very large
user community and an extensive literature. The comp.lang.perl.*
Or maybe they need very serious hand-holding and contractual obligations.
Shrink-wrapped CDs with perl on them are available from several sources if
that will help. For example, many perl books carry a perl distribution
-on them, as do the O'Reily Perl Resource Kits (in both the Unix flavor
+on them, as do the O'Reilly Perl Resource Kits (in both the Unix flavor
and in the proprietary Microsoft flavor); the free Unix distributions
also all come with Perl.
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+covered under Perl's Artistic License. For separate distributions of
all or part of this FAQ outside of that, see L<perlfaq>.
Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples here are public
derivatives thereof in your own programs for fun or for profit as you
see fit. A simple comment in the code giving credit to the FAQ would
be courteous but is not required.
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