Just for this thread, I have gone to ActiveState and learned how to use their search facility to find my email address to copy and update my response to someone way back on August 31, 2000 - this was my very first perl success ;-D
I have added a note regarding Windows XP at the end of it. You're probably already all set by now, but if not, this solution has worked well for me. I have assumed that you have installed the Active State perl with all the defaults and that you have done nothing special with your windows installation. -carol =========================================================================== , but when I double-click on the Perl icon, all > I get is an > MS-DOS box that apparently doesn't allow me to do anything. When you edit a "perl program" in something like, oh, notepad, and save it to type .pl in Windows 98, in order to "test" the program, you need to be able to double-click on the SCRIPT - "whatever.pl" - and have it run your perl script for you. What it does is pop up a command.com window, run your script in perl, and close. Unless you set up your command window to NOT close until you close it manually. One way to get around this is to open a command window. Then your call to perl might look like this: c:\active state\perl\> perl c:\testing\myscript.pl However, I can give you instructions to be able to double click on the perl script, since I generally type something wrong when I use a command line. /* my original post didn't note that my solution will leave your command window open at the end*/ You need to get to the "file types" section of windows - I'm in NT right now, so I might not be sending you to the right place to find it, but it's going to be called "file types" and you can surely find it through Windows Help. My instructions on this computer say to open My Computer, open the View menu, click Options, then click the File Types tab. Once you get there, scroll down until you find an entry for the extension PL. Edit the entry. If an action "OPEN" exists, select it and edit it to have the line (just paste it in there). command.com /k C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe "%1" %* /* NT4,Win2K,WinXP use cmd.exe - see notes at end of post */ for the "application used to perform action" (or whatever it's called in 98). If no action "open" exists, create one. While you're at it, you can set up your right click menu to allow you to edit any .pl file using notepad by adding an edit action. To find the correct code to put there, look for .txt in your file types and copy the action commands to open something in notepad from there. Hope this helps, especially since it's the *only* perl trick I've got! -carol Oh, by the way, if anyone needs this same information for NT4, the line is a little different (how irritating, I know): C:\WINNT\System32\cmd.exe /K "C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe %1 %*" Win2K I don't know if it's at c:\WINNT or c:\WINDOWS, - search for cmd.exe to find out. Win XP C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /K "C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe %1 %*" There's an Advanced button under FileTypes - go ahead and look there -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
