RE: Strange change in WinNT environment: File association to .PL now give error message

[Cutts III, James H.]

Title: RE: Strange change in WinNT environment: File association to .PL now give error message

Fernando,

 

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, the associations and file typing are correct:

D:\Projects\Perl>ASSOC .PL
.PL=Perl

 

D:\Projects\Perl>FTYPE PERL
PERL="D:\BIN\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

And I'm still getting that weird error: "The Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with
this file.  Please contact your system administrator."

 

James.

 -----Original Message-----
From: Fernando Madruga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 19:25
To: 'Perl Win32 Users (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: Strange change in WinNT environment: File association to .PL now give error message

Try:
 ASSOC .PL=Perl
 FTYPE Perl="C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

Before actually doing that, just check what the current values are:
 ASSOC .PL
 FTYPE WhateverYouGetAsTheResultOfThePreviousLine

HTH,
  Fernando Madruga


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Cutts III, James H.
Sent: sexta-feira, 12 de Julho de 2002 13:42
To: Perl Win32 Users (E-mail)
Subject: Strange change in WinNT environment: File association to .PL
now give error message


The other day, I was working with PPM3 getting the libwww-perl module
and familiarizing myself with PPM3.  Everything worked fine.  However,
and it may not be actually related to PPM3, when I finished working with
PPM3 and returned to the DOS prompt, I found that I could not longer run
PERL scripts directly from the command line.  Prior to my excursion into
the world of PPM3, I would type, for example, Question_load.pl at the
command prompt and Question_load.pl would compile and run.  Now it
doesn't.  Instead I get an error dialog message box with the message:
"The Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with
this file.  Please contact your system administrator."  After clicking
the OK button, I get in the DOS window, "Access Denied".  However,
fortunately, and strangely, typing: perl Question_load.pl works
perfectly.

Any suggestions on what happened and how to fix it?  I liked being able
to just type the script name again.

BTW, I'm using  v5.6.1 Build 631 for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread on an Win
NT4 SP6

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