This directory contains the fruits of all my activity related to Perl. In short order: perl-5.6.1.tar.gz Latest production version of Perl. For bleeding edge development releases, see $CPAN/authors/id/JHI/. Older production versions based on 5.005 and 5.004 can be found at $CPAN/authors/id/GBARR/ and $CPAN/authors/id/CHIPS/ respectively. perl5.00402-bindist04-bc.zip perl5.00402-bindist04-bc.tar.gz This used to be a popular binary distribution of Perl for the Win32 platform (intel), now rather outdated. Comes with many widely-used modules and all the tools for adding new ones from CPAN. This distribution is rather aged; see www.ActiveState.com for binaries built around the latest version of Perl. libwin32-*.zip libwin32-*.tar.gz libwin32-*.patch A growing collection of Win32-specific modules. Contains binaries that can only be used with the perl5.00402-bindist04-bc distribution above. If your Perl binaries are from elsewhere, you'll need to either rebuild from source, or get binaries from the same source as your Perl binaries. If there is a patch, it can be applied over the latest available *.zip or *.tar.gz. DB_File-1.54-bin-v3-x86-mswin32-bc.zip Intel binaries for the DB_File extension, for use with the perl5.00402-bindist04-bc distribution above. Built with Berkeley DB version 2.3.6. Alias-2.32.tar.gz A module that allows you to say "convenient" in the same breath as "object-oriented". Provides easy syntax to access hash-based object attributes and hash elements in general. Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz Pretty printer and persistence engine for Perl data. Perl 5.005 and later come with this bundled, so you typically need this only if you are using an earlier version of Perl. Not maintained outside the Perl source tree any more. MLDBM-2.00.tar.gz A convenience wrapper that allows you to store multidimensional structures in DBM databases. Tie-IxHash-1.21.tar.gz A module that allows hashes to be order preserving. Archive-Tar-0.071.tar.gz I don't maintain this anymore. See $CPAN/authors/id/SRZ/ for more recent versions. dmake-4.1pl1-win32.zip A somewhat fixed up version of Dennis Vadura's make clone. This is totally unsupported. If you want to use it with Perl to build extensions, change the 'make' entry in Config.pm such that running `perl -V:make` prints "make='dmake';". Anything that doesn't figure in the list above is either not related to Perl, or hysterical junk that you should probably ignore. Enjoy! Gurusamy Sarathy gsar@ActiveState.com 16-APR-2000