Okay, tested just copying the Perl folder to E drive and it worked. I uninstalled perl and deleted the folders from my hard drive for testing purposes, burned perl folder onto the CD, deleted eg and html folders for space but it wasn't really necessary, there's plenty of room.
My CD drives are G and H but a CD could be any drive letter so now I need a relative path. I first thought use a shortcut and then open the properties dialog box and enter what you want but Windozes won't accept a relative path there. I would call BillyG and tell him what I think about that but his number is unlisted :) Then I thought to try an autorun.ini file containing something like: [autorun] shellexecute=Perl\bin\perl.exe myscript.pl That works for html files anyway and it * might * work for this but somehow my file associations to ini have all become notepad.exe and one action has disappeared completely. If someone would please open folder options, file types tab, scroll down to ini and highlight, then click the advanced button, then highlight -- here I'm not sure, it's the one that disappeared, it's something like "install" or "execute" or "run" or... -- and click the Edit button and tell me what's in the "Application used to perform action" dialog box -- I would appreciate it very much. Thanks very much for everyone's patience with my tinkering. BTW this is not for distribution. It's a one time thing on one computer but important (to me) nevertheless. I tried PP, that worked, but I really don't want to install anything on the host computer, even in the Temp file. ms _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
