A..3 Perl

Go to Cvsnap1\SW\texutils\ActivePerl and click on ActivePerl....msi. This will install Active Perl using the Microsoft Installer Version 1.1 or greater. Accept the license and install all features to D:\Perl. Tell it to add Perl to your path variable (requires administrator privilege on an NT machine) and to create the Perl file extension association.

If your machine is a Win9x or NT system that does not already have the Microsoft Installer, the installation program will complain immediately, and you should try installing the Installer on your machine. Installers for the Installer are in the Nt and Win9x subfolders on the installation disk, click on InstMsi.exe to activate.

On one NRAO system (maria in the Charlottesville Library, running NT4, Service Pack 6), this installation method for Active Perl 623 failed irretrievably, although the installer backed out of the failure gracefully. ActivePerl provides a work-around for cases in which the .msi installer fails. To use this, create the folder D:\Perl manually, and extract the contents of ActivePerl....zip to this folder, preserving the subfolder names from the . zip. Then click on install.bat in your D:\Perl folder. This invokes an installation dialog in a Command Prompt window. Accept the option to modify your path variable to include D:\Perl.

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