> .pl files are associated with Perl during the AS install on some platforms
> (NT, notably). YMMV.
Ah. Then I can just do:
C:\My Documents\Perl> Hello.pl
and it will run it that there Command Prompt window?
> #!perl -w
>
> Works peachy.
Great.
> > perldoc command
>
> 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...
Ah.
> c:\perl\html has a nicely formatted set of docs under AS.
Is there any searching with this? One of the things I like best is
being able to do things like:
% perldoc -f mkdir
which is much harder to find with HTML docs.
> > second parameter to the mkdir() function
>
> Doesn't matter, it's ignored.
Hoped it would be.
Thanks a lot. I'm feeling much better about this already!
Simon
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