Nial, For leanring Perl in general, you can invest get a hold of 'Programming = Perl' from O'Reilly. There are some Windows specific Perl books written = by Dave Roth that I have used when DBAing on a Windows platform. For really in depth stuff, you should look at Tom Christianson's 'Perl = Cookbook' (O'Reilly again) and on http://www.activestate.com for their = Perl cookbook pages. If you are interested in an IDE, look at Komodo from ActiveState. ----------------- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:35 AM To: ORACLE-L (E-mail) Subject: OT: Perl on Windows So I've installed ActiveState perl 5.8 on my win laptop, apparently some people find it useful occasionally :). What would be really nice now is a pointer to useful sites for utter newbies, so I don't keep running into path conflicts with the perl that Oracle installs, so i can figure out how it all hangs together - that sort of stuff. --=20 Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l This electronic message transmission is a PRIVATE communication which = contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is = intended=20 to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are = not the=20 intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, = distribution=20 or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please notify = the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, or notify us = by telephone (877-633-2436, ext. 0), and then delete it from your system. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l