BigPerl for DOS - Perl

This is a discussion on BigPerl for DOS - Perl ; G'day I'm running a W95 machine and I'd like to run simple third-party Perl scripts in MS DOS mode. I know of the existence of BigPerl for DOS but I can't find it anywhere. All the URLs I can find ...

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    G'day

    I'm running a W95 machine and I'd like to run simple third-party Perl
    scripts in MS DOS mode. I know of the existence of BigPerl for DOS
    but I can't find it anywhere. All the URLs I can find seem to be
    pointing to Peugeots and Unimogs. The Wayback Machine was no help
    either. Does anyone know where I can find BigPerl for DOS, or any
    other Perl interpreter for MS Dos?

    Thanks!
    Samuel Murray

    Alternatively, how can I tell Windows that it's *all*right* if the
    script wants to overwrite an existing file? :-)

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    Voetleuce wrote:

    > Alternatively, how can I tell Windows that it's *all*right* if the
    > script wants to overwrite an existing file? :-)


    Just use
    open(FH,">$filename") or die "Cannot write $filename - $!";

    But first, make sure that the file is not currently open by another
    process. On Windows, process "B" cannot overwrite an existing
    file if process "A" has it open for reading.
    -Joe

    P.S. This newsgroup is defunct; use comp.lang.perl.misc instead.

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