Yes, I've searched the net for the solution and none of them seemed to
apply. I'm behind a firewall and was totally unable to get the proxy to
work. Don't know why, netscape and others work ok, so I downloaded the
zip files and unzipped them into a directory, E:\PERLMODS, changed to
that directory and ran ppm and got that error message. Here are the
results:
E:\PERLMODS>ppm
PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> set repository this e:\perlmods
PPM> search
Packages available from e:\perlmods:
File-Slurp [96.042202] single call read & write file routines; read
directories
Win32-DDE [0.02 ] Perl extension for Win32 DDE
PPM> install File-Slurp
Install package 'File-Slurp?' (y/N): y
Installing package 'File-Slurp'...
Error installing package 'File-Slurp': Could not locate a PPM binary of
'File-Sl
urp' for this platform
PPM> quit
E:\PERLMODS>dir
Directory of E:\PERLMODS
08/29/01 08:23a <DIR> .
08/29/01 08:23a <DIR> ..
09/09/99 08:47p 398 File-Slurp.ppd
09/19/00 04:55p 130 README
08/29/01 08:23a <DIR> x86
09/09/99 08:42p 363 Win32-DDE.ppd
6 File(s) 891 bytes
1,136,099,328 bytes free
E:\PERLMODS>dir x86
Volume in drive E has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 789D-5671
Directory of E:\PERLMODS\x86
08/29/01 08:23a <DIR> .
08/29/01 08:23a <DIR> ..
07/22/98 11:20p 9,057 File-Slurp.tar.gz
07/22/98 11:23p 26,695 Win32-DDE.tar.gz
4 File(s) 35,752 bytes
1,136,099,328 bytes free
The files are there, the ppd files look reasonable. I don't have gzip
installed but I assume the files are OK.
I attempted to install both File-Slurp and Win32-DDE. Same problem. I
tried it without setting the repository, but that didn't work either.
Note: the PPM files are not binary, if that makes a difference.
So what do I do next?
THanks,
Jim.
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