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Eric Wilhelm wrote: > With a VM install, you still have to wade through the boggy experience > of mousing-around in a completely foreign environment while swearing at > the shell for being completely unreasonable about everything. I know that Norton Commander clones generally are not used anywhere outside the former Soviet Union, but you may take a look at Far Commander ( http://www.farmanager.com/download.php?l=en ) and install MSYS and MinGW (and optionally: 1. install ActivePerl, 2. Install StrawberryPerl). After that, you should have something close to your working environment, and more (thanks to Far Cmdr). > It seems like you could construct a pretty thoroughly windowsish > environment by hiding all useful commands (e.g. rename /bin,/usr/bin) > and unsetting $PATH, then make some working/temp directories with > spaces in the names. That would catch most of the common problems. > Not sure if you could emulate the brokenness of the backslashes on a > *nix though. Perl on Windows doesn't have any problems with straight slashes. Unless you do my $bla = `/bin/sh`; Something like "open (my $FILE, '<', '/Windows/TEMP/File.txt')" works just fine, though I would recommend using File::Spec->cat just to be sure. P.S. Programming in Perl on the Windows as primary platform for more than 10 years. -- Serguei TrouchelleThread Previous