On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chris Garringer wrote:
> I've run Activestate perl on NT and W2000. On NT I had to use perl
> <program name>. On 2000 I only need the program name. What would be
> required on a "consumer" rather that "business' M$ Operating system I
> don't know. It "should" be a matter of associating the extension you
> are using with the perl program, and having the program in the path.
> But M$ is not noted for consistency in design.
The CygWin Perl port 5.6.1 works exactly as under Unix, using the shebang
path, as long as you set the executable bit. CygWin also has the
advantage that you can use CPAN modules and compile with gcc directly --
even if you use the cpan shell.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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