Directions for downloading and installing Perl on Windows98

[josephc at etards.net]

This may be not what you want to hear, but I think you should consider a 
change in OS. Maybe not Linux, but I'm pretty sure Windows98 only allows a 
certain number of simulatanious connections, so as a web server, it's 
lacking.

While everyone here would love for you to switch to Linux, even NT or 2k 
would better suit your project.

While I can't think of anything specific, running Perl and a webserver on 
Win98 makes my security bells go off.

-joe

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, kgleason.ma.ultranet at rcn.com wrote:

> I guess my needed task to collect data from an html form to a data file
> will best be done using Perl. My server is running Windows98se and I would
> like to install Perl to do some CGI but when I attempt to download
> 'InstMsiA.exe' from http://www.activestate.com and double click on the
> executable I get the message 'The Specified Server already exists'. I then
> try to compile a sample script and the script doesn't execute. What am I
> doing wrong? I don't think I was properly installed...so I would like to
> reinstall from scratch.
> 
> Can anyone offer a good step-by-step solution for downloading Perl on my
> Windows98se fileserver? Can it be all that difficult to accomplish this
> task?
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