The only disadvantage to running Perl from a CD is that the file associations would not be there, so you would have to prepend perl.exe to your command-line to launch your script.
perl myscript.pl Other than that, you can just copy your perl directory to a CD and run it from any machine with a similar architecture. If you're going to be redistributing scripts a lot, though, it might be worth looking into the Perl Dev Kit from ActiveState. You can package your scripts into executables and redistribute them without having to worry if the client has Perl installed or not. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael D. Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:32 AM To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: PERL on a CD Is it possible to burn PERL and a script onto a CD and execute it from there without installing perl on the host computer? There would be nothing in the registry. The path to perl.exe would have to be included for the script to execute -- but beyond that, I'm a blank. Any thoughts appreciated. Actually, it would be unknown if PERL were installed on the host computer or not -- is there any way to check first? -- as it would definitely execute quicker off the hard drive than off a CD. TIA ms _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
