Jan 19, 2001, 11:34 AM Post #1 of 1 (From the Perl FAQ) What
machines support Perl? Where do I get it? The standard release
of Perl (the one maintained by the perl development team) is
distributed only in source code form. You can find this at
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz, which in standard
Internet format (a gzipped archive in POSIX tar format). Perl
builds and runs on a bewildering number of platforms. Virtually
all known and current Unix derivatives are supported (Perl's
native platform), as are proprietary systems like VMS, DOS,
OS/2, Windows, QNX, BeOS, and the Amiga. There are also the
beginnings of support for MPE/iX. Binary distributions for some
proprietary platforms, including Apple systems can be found
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/ directory. Because these are not
part of the standard distribution, they may and in fact do
differ from the base Perl port in a variety of ways. You'll have
to check their respective release notes to see just what the
differences are. These differences ca