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At this point I can't lose the the "known good" distro, activestate, that I have installed

To be very clear, Vanilla/Strawberry Perl do not install over the top of ActiveState. They install in their own, separate directories at the root of the "C" drive. The proper paths are added at the end of the PATH environment variable. Which Perl runs when you type "perl" at the command line will be based on the first perl.exe found in the path, which should continue to be ActiveState. Moreover, no file associations are changed.

So, while I make no promises, I suspect that Strawberry Perl can live peacefully alongside ActiveState if you want to try it out. Just run it explicitly with the full path, like so:

> \strawberry-perl\perl\bin\perl.exe -V
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-xdg

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In reply to Re^2: Are you using Vanilla/Strawberry Perl? Tell me about it! by xdg
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