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- nsPerl is a binary distribution of dynamic Perl. To install it:
-
- cd # to the directory in which you want to install it.
- unzip nsPerl5.005_03-12-MSWin32-x86.zip
- cd nsPerl5.005_03
- .\install
-
- bin\MSWin32-x86\nsperl is your new Perl interpreter. For example:
-
- bin\MSWin32-x86\nsperl -v
-
- To make it easy to run Perl from a command prompt, copy the file
- bin\MSWin32-x86\nsperl.exe into one of the directories named in your
- PATH environment variable. Once that's done, the command `nsperl`
- will run Perl. If you prefer the command `perl`, rename the copy
- from nsperl.exe to perl.exe.
-
- bin contains various Perl scripts. To make it easier to run them
- from a command prompt, copy them into one of the directories named
- in your PATH evironment variable.
-
- lib\MSWin32-x86\nsPerl contains software that reconfigures Perl
- to work on your machine. Its source code is in the subdirectory src
- (which you can discard, without affecting other programs' behavior).
-
- The rest of this package was built from standard Perl source code.
- You can get a copy from http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0/maint/
- or http://www.perl.org
-
- To make Perl occupy less disk space, you can remove its documentation;
- that is lib/pod/html or lib/pod. There's a copy of the documentation
- at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/ , although it's not the same version
- as this copy of Perl.
-
- If you want to automate the installation of nsPerl, the algorithm
- supported in all versions is to execute .\install, with the current
- working directory set to the only directory unpacked from the archive
- file. .\install creates a Perl interpreter program named nsperl.exe,
- which can be moved or copied elsewhere without loss of functionality.
-
- - John Kristian <kristian@netscape.com>
-
-