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Hi All,

Need help configuring Active Perl on Windows Vista.
I am trying to install Active Perl on Windows Vista.

The version of Active Perl i am trying to install is : ActivePerl 5.10.1 Build 1006

After installing it through cmd, When i try to run perl -v to check the version, i get the following error :

Code:

  Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\vabiosis>perl -v
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

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Kindly help if i am doing something wrong...

Thanks & Regards,

Vabiosis

From when we only had Windows to develop software on and were using ActivePerl, there should be a menu item under the Start button. It opens an editor with the Perl parser built in and an output section to show the results. So "perl -v" will indeed be an unrecognised command.

Sounds like your environment path did not get set right to point to Perl. When I installed perl on vista it had a check box that was checked to add it to my path. You might try uninstalling it and reinstall and make sure that it is checked or check on the Active State site to see where you could update it. Good luck.