DOCUMENT:Q172756  11-FEB-1999  [mspress]
TITLE   :DocErr: In Readme.txt in \Perl Folder of NT 4.0 ResKit
PRODUCT :Microsoft Press
PROD/VER:
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:kbdocerr

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Resource Kit
 - Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit, Supplement One
 - Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit, Supplement Two
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SUMMARY
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This article summarizes multiple errors in the Readme.txt files in these
folders:

   \Common\Common\Perl\Readme.txt
   \Source\Gnu\Perl\Readme.txt

MORE INFORMATION
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NTPerl5.htm Referenced in Readme.txt
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The following text appears in the Readme.txt files listed above:

  The entire Perl 5 manual can be viewed with your WWW browser of choice
  (i.e. Netscape) by opening the file "NTPERL5.HTM" in the 'html-docs'
  directory.

NTPerl5.htm was not included on the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit
CD-ROM.

NTPerl5.htm was included on the "Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 Resource Kit
Update Volume 2" CD-ROM, but was dropped from subsequent releases of the
Microsoft Windows NT Resource Kit.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the
beginning of this article.

Invalid FTP Site Cited In Readme.txt
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The following text appears in the Readme.txt files listed above:

   The release version of Perl for Win32 will be available from
   from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/ [TBD: subdir, please?]

This is not a valid FTP site address.  The source code for Perl
is not available from the Microsoft FTP site.  Instead, the source code is
available on the CD-ROM included with the products listed at the beginning
of this article.  The source code can be found in the following folder:

    \Source\Gnu\Perl\ 

The Perl source code is also available from the following World Wide Web
site:

   http://www.activeware.com

NOTE: this site is not under the control of Microsoft and may change
without notice.  For Microsoft's official statement regarding other
servers, please see the following World Wide Web site:

   http://www.microsoft.com/misc/nonms.htm

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the
beginning of this article.

Additional query words: mspress ms_press press ntrk ntreskit 1-57231-344-7
1-57231-343-9 1-57231-559-8 1-57231-626-8
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Keywords          : kbdocerr 
Platform          : WINDOWS
Solution Type     : kbpending

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