>You do _NOT_ want to start learning Perl on Win32. No no no no bad.
>
>Now that that's out of my system, some suggestions - O'Reilly has a
>book/resource kit for Win32. From what I've seen of them, both the book
>and the resource kit could be useful. (I refuse to purchase either for
>religious reasons.)
On the other hand, working with what is at hand has its advantages as well.
Win32 Perl definitely has limitations. However, we're doing lots of interesting text
translation/massaging, importing to Oracle databases, etc, off Win32 without a qualm.
One (small) advantage of Win32 is that you do not have a predefined swap file size as
in Linux (you may all now educate me and say why this is not so). One script took the
simple way out for a duplicate check and loads everything into a hash to check. Wants
to consume about 1 GByte of RAM. Runs fine, though slowly, on NT. Won't complete on my
Linux machine until I redefine my swap partition which I _really_ don't want to do
just for one script I run every few months.
(Yes, there are more efficient ways to do this. On the other hand, I only spent 5
minutes writing it.) :}
Ray
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