I am new to perl. I am running Windows 2000 Professional. I am doing a tutorial and I wrote my first program ‘hello world’, type .plx When I try to run it the system doesn’t know what to do with extention .plx
Is there a web site to download the necessary pieces to run .plx’s
I've been programming for 30 year mostly on midrange systems, currently IBM iSeries. I've written COBOL, RPG, CLP, Basic in school 30 years ago and a little bit of HTML. Any help is greatly appreciated.

On Windows Perl is not included by default. You need to install it. For you, best would be ActivePerl. And use .pl extension - .plx is reserved for Perl in IIS.

Assuming that you have already installed perl, you can't just run your .plx file by double-clicking it. There are 2 reasons for this:
* When you install perl, it associates the .pl extension with perl, not .plx.
* If you have your extension associated correctly, you will just see a DOS window open, display something and close before you can read it. You need to open a DOS window and type 'perl hello.plx' in order to see the results of your program (assuming that you called it 'hello.plx' and you are in the right directory).
See point 7 at the top of page 8 of this wonderful book:
http://blob.perl.org/books/beginning...145_Chap01.pdf