"CPAN" = Comprehensive Perl Archive Network a worldwide collection of anonymous ftp sites for Perl et al (not to be confused with CTAN which is for TeX). The files of particular interest to a perl/Tk programmer include:
Updated: Thu May 16 01:13:37 EDT 1996
Africa
South Africa
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/programming/perl/CPAN/ 196.4.160.8
Asia
Hong Kong
ftp://ftp.hkstar.com/pub/CPAN/ 202.82.0.80
Japan
ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/lang/perl/CPAN/ 192.26.91.3
Taiwan
ftp://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/perl/CPAN/ 140.115.25.3
Australasia
Australia
ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ 150.203.76.2
ftp://ftp.mame.mu.oz.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.250.209.2
New Zealand
ftp://ftp.tekotago.ac.nz/pub/perl/CPAN/ 202.49.6.24
Europe
Austria
ftp://ftp.tuwien.ac.at/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 128.130.66.11
Czech Republic
ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 194.50.16.66
Denmark
ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 130.225.51.30
Finland
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 128.214.248.6
France
ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/ 132.227.77.2
ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/computing/unix/perl/CPAN/ 157.99.64.12
Germany
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/perl/CPAN/ 131.159.0.252
ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/CPAN/ 134.147.32.42
Greece
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/perl/ 147.102.222.210
Hungary
ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/perl/CPAN/ 148.6.0.5
the Netherlands
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/ 131.211.80.17
Poland
ftp://ftp.pk.edu.pl/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 149.156.132.152
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/CPAN/ 148.81.209.2
Portugal
ftp://ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/lang/perl/ 193.136.16.247
Slovenia
ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/perl/CPAN/ 193.2.1.72
Spain
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/CPAN/ 130.206.1.2
Sweden
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 130.238.127.3
Switzerland
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/ 130.59.1.40
UK
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/ 158.152.1.44
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/CPAN/ 146.169.17.5
ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/perl-CPAN/ 129.12.200.129
North America
British Columbia
ftp://mango.pinc.com/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ 204.174.113.53
California
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/ 204.123.2.4
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/perl/CPAN/ 165.113.58.253
Colorado
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.138.243.20
Florida
ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.227.162.34
Illinois
ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 128.174.5.14
Massachusetts
ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ 206.15.105.99
Oklahoma
ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu/mirrors/CPAN/ 129.15.2.40
Texas
ftp://ftp.sedl.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ 198.213.9.194
ftp://ftp.metronet.com/pub/perl/ 192.245.137.6
ftp://ftp.sterling.com/CPAN/ 198.4.58.3
South America
Chile
ftp://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/Lang/perl/CPAN/ 146.83.4.11
For those equipped with multi-protocol browsers you might pay a visit to
Tom Christiansen's CPAN multiplexer
whose relevant Tk URLs are:
http://perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod?module=Tk
http://perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod?module=Tk&readme=1
According to Stephen P. Potter some of the CPAN sites have decompression on the
fly for people who do not have programs like gunzip. For example,
at the ufl site (Florida USA) type this into your ftp session to download a
gunzipped version of Tk:
ftp> get Tk-b11.02.tar.gz Tk-b11.02.tar
If you have the appropriate CPAN and FTP modules already installed you can
retrieve a module from CPAN and carry out a complete
installation with a perl one-liner like this:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Tk"'
For more information on CPAN you can send e-mail to the CPAN administrators,
<cpan-adm@ftp.funet.fi>.
If you know of some Perl resources that seem not to be in the CPAN
(you did check the contents listings in indices/, didn't you?) please tell
the CPAN administrators.
If you have some modules/scripts/documentation yourself that you
would like to contribute to CPAN, please read the file authors/00upload.howto
and let the CPAN administrators know about it.
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