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=== Strawberry Perl (64-bit) Portable 5.28.0.

1-64bit README ===

What is Strawberry Perl Portable?


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* 'Perl' is a programming language suitable for writing simple scripts as well


as complex applications. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html

* 'Strawberry Perl' is a perl environment for Microsoft Windows containing all


you need to run and develop perl applications. It is designed to be as close
as possible to perl environment on UNIX systems. See http://strawberryperl.com/

* 'Strawberry Perl Portable' is Strawberry Perl that you do not need to install,
you do not need admin privileges, you just extract provided ZIP on your disk.

How to use Strawberry Perl Portable?


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* Extract strawberry portable ZIP into e.g. c:\myperl\


Note: choose a directory name without spaces and non us-ascii characters

* Launch c:\myperl\portableshell.bat - it should open a command prompt window

* In the command prompt window you can:

1. run any perl script by launching

c:\> perl c:\path\to\script.pl

2. install additional perl modules (libraries) from http://www.cpan.org/ by

c:\> cpan Module::Name

3. run other tools included in strawberry like: perldoc, gcc, gmake ...

* If you want to use Strawberry Perl Portable not only from portableshell.bat,
add c:\myperl\perl\site\bin, c:\myperl\perl\bin, and c:\myperl\c\bin
to PATH variable

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