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DocErr: In Readme.txt in \Perl Folder of NT 4.0 ResKit

Article ID: 172756

Article Last Modified on 1/20/2007


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SUMMARY

This article summarizes multiple errors in the Readme.txt files in these folders:

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

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NTPerl5.htm Referenced in Readme.txt

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

The following text appears in the Readme.txt files listed above:
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: 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: 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

Keywords: kbdocerr kbpending KB172756