This disc contains CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Larry Wall╒s Perl combines the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh. People familiar with those languages should love Perl. Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning text files, extracting information, and printing reports. It╒s also an excellent language for many system management tasks.
With this CDROM, you get a copy of CPAN, which aims to be The Perl archive. It╒s the only Perl archive you will ever need. The material is as up-to-date as possible, uncompressed and organized to make finding files easy.
You╒ll own the sources to the latest versions of both Perl4 (4.036) and Perl5 (5.000m). You╒ll also own source or binary versions for Amiga, Atari, A/UX, LynxOS, Mac, MPE, MS-DOS, MVS, NetWare, Windows-NT, OS/2, VMS, and Xenix. Perl compiles on over 40 platforms. There are hundreds of Perl programs in the scripts directory, including system administration utilities, mail-handling, Internet traversal, file-handling, and new libraries and modules.
The Perl CDROM comes with documentation, papers, examples, and support utilities. There are articles on a variety of subjects, including discussions of the new features in Perl5.
Extensions include connections to Tk, Motif, and many databases including Oracle (6 & 7), Sybase 4, Ingres, Informix, and Postgres, as well as B-trees and C-trees. You get about 7,000 files in all.
We unconditionally guarantee this disc. We know you╒ll enjoy this CDROM.
