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The above comments are sound advice. However, if your task is as simple as you describe it, the simplest solution may be to just set up a cron job to call wget.

If you use Windows, I believe (but am not 100% sure) that Start -> Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks is the cron equivalent and you can find wget for Windows here.

In reply to Re: Perl on Windows XP needs to grab internet txt file. by Starky
in thread Perl on Windows XP needs to grab internet txt file. by kansaschuck

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