I downloaded active perl and go to the perl package manager but I cant figure out how to get my applications to run. Any suggestions?

PPM is not for running your perl programs. Its for installing modules and other tasks related to modules. On Windows the way I prefer to run a perl program is open a DOS (or Command) Window and type:

perl scriptname optional-arguments

You may need to add the path to the perl program:

perl c:\whatever\scriptname optional-arguments

activeperl also comes with a whole lot of documentation so you need to start reading it.

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