-<P>Next you need to create the initial user files, etc. A tool is
-supplied which will do this for you. To run the tool:-
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-cd \spider\perl
-perl create_sysop.pl
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>If all goes according to plan, you will see no output from this
-program, and after a brief wait, your DOS prompt will be
-returned.
-<P>Depending on how brave you are, you might now care to try the
-following:-
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-perl cluster.pl
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>If you did everything you were told, your DOS window will now
-hold a display which looks something like:-
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.47
-Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
-loading prefixes ...
-loading band data ...
-loading user file system ...
-starting listeners ...
-Internal port: localhost 27754
-load badwords: Ok
-reading in duplicate spot and WWV info ...
-reading existing message headers ...
-load badmsg: Ok
-load forward: Ok
-load swop: Ok
-@msg = 0 before delete
-@msg = 0 after delete
-reading cron jobs ...v cron: reading /spider/cmd/crontab
-cron: adding 1 0 * * 0
-DXUser::export("$main::data/user_asc")
-reading database descriptors ...
-doing local initialisation ...
-orft we jolly well go ...
-queue msg (0)
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>Now, if that's what you've got, you are very nearly home and dry
-(in as far as these particular experiments are concerned, anyhow)
-<P>To access your new cluster (from the local machine) find yourself another
-"DOS box" and do the following:-
+<P>The platform I used to generate these instructions was a
+"vanilla" Microsoft Windows Me 4.90.3000 system, with a 700MHz
+AMD Athlon processor and 96 Mb memory. I've also personally
+verified that it runs on my laptop (Pentium 266MHz, 32 Mb memory,
+Windows 98 SE v4.10.2222 A) and a computer that I assembled from
+a random pile of junk (AMD K6-2 333MHz, 64 Mb memory, Windows 98
+v4.10.1998). As a result, I have reason to believe that what I'm
+about to describe will perform equally on any 32-bit MS Windows
+environment with 32 Mb of memory.
+<P>Because of the changes that have recently been made to the core
+"cluster.pl" module and the introduction of a very lightweight
+"winclient.pl", I have a sneaking suspicion that this will now
+run on any platform that has reasonably complete support for
+Perl. Is there someone out there with both an enquiring mind and
+(say) a Macintosh, for instance?
+<P>Please bear in mind, though, that my instructions relate solely
+to how to get this going under a Microsoft Windows environment,
+and I have zero intention of trying to make them say otherwise.
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss5.4">5.4 Perl</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>Install your chosen Perl environment. Unless you have a very good
+reason for not doing so, I strongly suggest that you use
+ActivePerl v5.6. For my testing & development, I used build 623.
+You can get this from:-
+<A HREF="http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html">http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html</A><P>You will need to choose either the MSI or the AS package. My
+recommendation is that you choose the MSI package and deal with
+the consequences if your system isn't equipped with support for
+the latest MS Installer; you'll be better off in the long run.
+The build 623 download is 7,460 KB, so now is a really good time
+to have some tea if you're on a slow dial-up connection.
+<P>During installation, please ensure that you do choose the options
+to "Add Perl to the PATH environment variable" and "Create Perl
+file extension association"; it will make your life so much
+easier. Once the installation is finished, be sure to reboot your
+PC. You probably won't be told anywhere else that this needs to
+be done now, but it does. Really.
+<P>Once you've rebooted, open a "DOS box" (Start > Run > command
+might do it, if you can't find it elsewhere) and from wherever it
+lands, type PERL -v <ENTER> (it's better if that's a lower-case
+'v', because an upper-case 'V' means something else. You should
+be rewarded with some interesting information about your Perl
+installation. If you're not, you must go back to the beginning
+and discover what went wrong and fix it. It's pointless to
+proceed unless this simple check is passed. Assuming it did work,
+you may now move on.
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss5.5">5.5 Additional packages</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>Some extensions ("packages") need to be added to the base Perl
+distribution, and we'll do this next. If you're using the Perl I
+recommended, and don't know any better for yourself, then just
+blindly following these instructions will work just fine. If that
+didn't describe you, then you're on your own.
+<P>Visit the following URL: