Solving problems with read.fwf(), perl under WinNT (was: Re: [R] Using metric scaling)

[Karl M. Syring]

I think it is better to use the free perl binary from
http://www.activestate.com/.

Karl

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> I installed perl from the WindowsNt Recource Kit CD (Sept. 98) and
> encountered the same problem:
>
> Scan couldn't open the file
> - because perl did not produce it
> - because perl could not find it's library files
> - because the installation procedure did not copy the library
> files to my HD
> - and instead created registry entries pointing to the CD
>
> So the solution that worked for me is
> - copy RecourceKitCD:\source\gnu\perl\*.* and it's subdirectories to my HD
> (e.g. C:\NTRESKIT\perl),
> - change to this directory (e.g. C:\NTRESKIT\perl)
> - and run INSTALL.BAT (which updates the registry approbriately)
>
> Well, besides having some files twice in C:\NTRESKIT\perl and
> C:\NTRESKIT\perl\bin (e.g. perl.exe) (check your path)
> it works now.
>
>
> Best
>
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