On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:07:22PM +0100, Simon Myers wrote:
> but is there a less verbose way, the equivalent of the Unix #! line?
.pl files are associated with Perl during the AS install on some platforms
(NT, notably). YMMV.
> Related to that, is there a way of embedding the -w flag directly in
> scripts, like it can be on the Unix #! line?
Yes.
#!perl -w
Works peachy. Of course, you still need the association in the registry
or you'll still have to run the scripts with "perl foo.pl", but the -w
switch will do the Right Thing like this.
> Obvious I can't expect Unix manpages, but does the perldoc command work
> on Windows?
Yes, but the pager used is a little...uh..lame. Searching isn't there,
going backwards doesn't always work and ^C sometimes causes an application
error...
c:\perl\html has a nicely formatted set of docs under AS.
> What do you pass as the second parameter to the mkdir() function, since
> an octal permission number doesn't make a lot of sense on Windows?
Doesn't matter, it's ignored.
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