| ActivePerl User Guide |

# Welcome to ActivePerl

Thank you for using ActivePerl, ActiveState's quality-assured binary build of Perl, available for Linux, Solaris and Windows. As part of ActiveState's support for Perl, ActiveState provides the ActivePerl binary packages free to the community. ActivePerl includes:

- Perl, the binary core distribution
- The Perl Package Manager , for installing Perl extension modules
- Complete documentation

The Windows version of ActivePerl also includes:

- Perl for ISAPI, an IIS plug-in that makes perl CGI faster
- PerlScript, an ActiveX scripting engine, like JavaScript or VBScript with a Perl brain
- PerlEz, for embedding Perl the easy way

Refer to the Release Notes for information about this version of ActivePerl.

## ActiveState Products

ActiveState is the leading provider of productivity tools for Perl programmers and technology solutions based on Perl.

### Solutions

- ASPN Perl, a complete package of Perl productivity tools and programming information.
- PureMessage, the corporate mail filtering solution for comprehensive protection from spam and viruses.
- PerlEx, easy website acceleration for Perl scripts.
- PerlASPX, use Perl for dynamic content generation on ASP.NET Web servers.

### Productivity Tools

- Perl Dev Kit, the essential toolkit for building Perl applications for UNIX and Windows platforms.
- Komodo, the cross-platform integrated development environment for open source languages.
- Visual Perl, the Perl plug-in for Visual Studio .NET.

## Contact ActiveState

For installation-related support issues, contact support@ActiveState.com

For general information and support, refer to the ActivePerl mailing list at http://aspn.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ActivePerl

To report a bug, or to view bugs fixed in this release, see the ActivePerl bug site, at http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl