> Dr J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi again all,
>
> I am having problems installing (downloaded from ActiveState.com)
Visual Perl 1.8.0.2813 (on win xp home)
> and encountered this: the install window comes up and just sits there
(cancel button does not work).
>
> When I bring up the process table, the installer is said to be
running, but then later on
> comes back with "waiting on action from user" then eventually "program
not responding".
>
> I also noted that in this "idle" installer screen, there is reference
MS Visual studio .NET
> Technology. Does this need to be installed? If so, is there an
evaluation version of this?
>
> You will have to excuse my ignorance, but most of my professional life
I've programmed (C)/Perl and
> FORTRAN on *nix or VMS. Up until 2001, I started to become acquainted
with much OO and other
> stuff then I installed Visual C/C++ Pro and Visual J++ on MS
windows.then life started to go downhill
> from there :) . nah.I can do any project on "my platforms", but now we
have the requirement to
> have distributed databases on communicating across all platforms.
>
> The point is Visual C/C++ works. Why doesn't/shouldn't Visual Perl?
>
>
> Any suggestions will be most appreciated.
> TIA
> Janice
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joe Haskian
