Perl 5 for MS-DOS

[Rudi Langhanki]

Hello,

I'm trying to run Perl 5 under MS-DOS. Until now I found out that
there are two serious ports of Perl 5 available:

one of Laszlo Molnar. This is a MSDOS/DJGPP port of perl 5.004_02.
The other is Ilya Zakharevich's OS/2 port of Perl.

As I have to use Perl on an MS-DOS machine with the following
config.sys, I'm not sure which of the both Perls is better suited for
me:

config.sys:
----------
DEVICE=a:\himem.sys /int15=4096 /testmem:off
DEVICE=a:\emm386.exe noems x=C000-D1FF
DOS=HIGH,UMB
BREAK=ON
FILES=69
BUFFERS=10
LASTDRIVE=Z
SHELL=a:\command.com /E:2048 /P
DEVICEHIGH=a:\setver.exe

I read the instructions of both and as it is quiet a lot of work to
set-up a running system I decided not just to try the installation but
ask the newsgroup if there exist a more detailed installation
instruction for theese Perl ports, or even another (better?) Perl port
for MS-DOS.

Thank you for any help or advice ...
(except those advices that I should better use another language or OS
or ...).

I look forward to hear from one of you
Rudi

[Chas Friedman]

[email]rudi.langhanki@web.de[/email] (Rudi Langhanki) wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to run Perl 5 under MS-DOS. Until now I found out that
>there are two serious ports of Perl 5 available:
>
>one of Laszlo Molnar. This is a MSDOS/DJGPP port of perl 5.004_02.
>The other is Ilya Zakharevich's OS/2 port of Perl.

...

Siemens port of perl available at [url]http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GRAHAMC/[/url]
has worked well for me. You basically unpack it and it's ready to run. You
might have to set your path so binaries can be found, but that's about all.
It comes with a LOT of modules installed.
chas
--
for((112,97,99,107)){$s.=chr $_};
($z="``'=``:=`~,=``~=``{=;'=``'=+}=++=`~}=;".
"'=;+=++=:'=;+=::=:~=,,=,'=::=,'=,:=::=,:=,;".
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":=::=:+=:_=:`=,+=`~")=~tr/~`';:,{}_+=/0-9i/;
eval "\$_=$s 'c*', qw/@{[split /i/,$z]}/;";print;