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Notes As I said before, we are going to demonstrate this process on a Windows 95 machine. I chose to
demonstrate on a Windows box because I know that even if you are a UNIX developer, you have
access to a Windows machine that you can use to develop a test site. Of course, most likely, you
develop on a Windows system. Either way, everything we go over can be performed on any
platform, just with different software packages. I will try to point out where things might be
different as we go along.

Installing Perl

The first thing you will need to do is download Perl 5. You can do this easily, by going to
www.perl.com . There are two versions of Perl available and the differences are explained at
www.perl.com. However, I use Gurusamy Sarathy’s binary version of Perl for extra module
support.
If you are using UNIX, you can download the .tar.gz

Notes If you are using UNIX it is almost assuredly already installed and/or installable by
your systems administrator. You probably should not do it yourself.

If you are using Windows or Macintosh, download the ZIP file. In any case, unzip utilities for all
the platforms are available at www.shareware.com.
When you have downloaded the zipped file, you should uncompress it on your local hard drive.
On Windows, I tend to extract it into a directory like c:\Perl\Perl5.004\. But the directory you
use does not really matter much.

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