How to get any help related to PEAR?

Hello. I tried to install PEAR but got problems. Tried to find any help but got Access forbidden! on http://www.pear-forum.org/. You do not support PEAR project any more? My problem: 1. I began as written here http://pear.php.net/manual/ru/installation.getting.php. But I got absolutely different behaviour than written there. I cannot install PEAR with your instructions. They do not work. I use Windows XP. I have XAMPP installed. My path to PHP in XAMPP is "C:\xampp\php". My path to PEAR dir in XAMPP is "C:\xampp\php\PEAR". In the dir "C:\xampp\php" there is "go-pear.bat" file. I ran it as written in your manual but instead of The setup will ask you some questions and afterwards the PEAR Package > Manager will be installed I got only errors like these: manifest cannot be larger than 100 MB in phar > "C:\xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar" PHP Warning: > required-once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: phar > error: invalid url or non-existent phar "phar://go-pear.phar/index.php" > in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line 1236 > > Warning: required-once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open > stream: phar error: invalid url or non-existent phar > "phar://go-pear.phar/index.php" in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line > 1236 You do not provide any info about such kind of mistakes. Reading your manual there is everything is OK, but it's not OK. Also it's written in the manual: > Again: If you are running a recent version of PHP (> 4.3.0) you can skip > the installation section. Yes, I have PHP ver 5.03 installed with XAMPP. And as I told above there is dir "C:\xampp\php\PEAR". And there is some file "go-pear.phar" in that dir. But I cannot do anything with it written in the manual. I cannot *access the PEAR Package Manager by running the command pear in a Windows Command Prompt*, as written in the manual. Which steps should I undertake now to solve the problem? Where can I get any help? Thank you, Serge