Some URLs that might help you are:
http://language.perl.com/info/software.html
- http://www.perl.com/latest/
+ http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#binary
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/
Someone looking for a Perl for Win16 might look to Laszlo Molnar's djgpp
by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan
=item Tutorials
-
+
*Learning Perl [2nd edition]
by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen
with foreword by Larry Wall
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local
http://www.perl.com/CPAN (redirects to an ftp mirror)
- http://www.perl.org/CPAN
+ ftp://cpan.valueclick.com/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/
Most of the major modules (Tk, CGI, libwww-perl) have their own
mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for
-subscription information. Perl Mongers attempts to maintain a
+subscription information. The Perl Mongers attempt to maintain a
list of mailing lists at:
http://www.perl.org/support/online_support.html#mail
You'll probably want to trim that down a bit, though.
-ftp.cis.ufl.edu:/pub/perl/comp.lang.perl.*/monthly has an almost
-complete collection dating back to 12/89 (missing 08/91 through
-12/93). They are kept as one large file for each month.
-
You'll probably want more a sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism
than a file listing, preferably one that allows you to retrieve
articles using a fast-access indices, keyed on at least author, date,
and in the proprietary Microsoft flavor); the free Unix distributions
also all come with Perl.
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