On an NT/2k machine, go to the command prompt and type the following:
assoc .pl=Perl
ftype Perl=C:\Perl\Bin\Perl.exe %1 %*
After this has been done, you no longer have to type "Perl Perlfile.pl".
However, if you don't want to type the .pl either, i.e. "PerlFile" rather than
"PerlFile.pl"
In windows it uses the file association only, and in recent installs of
ActiveState Perl where I work, the installer sets all of this up for you.
So try it out, it might already be set up. Otherwise create a file
extension .pl (or whatever) and set the "Open" action to
"C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1
Can I assume you're really not running your perl script in DOS, but rather
in a command prompt on a Windows machine?
If the ActiveState install didn't register the file extention .pl with perl,
do it now. Make sure the default action is "open".
Then you can type:
C:\> myperlscript.pl
There is
On NT you put the extension in the environment variable
PATHEXT along with COM BAT EXE and such. There is a similar
facility in 95/98/ etc. but I don't know what they are.
Good Luck!
Dennis
>}On Feb 1, 16:44, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote:
>} Subject: make a executable with a perl file
ActiveState ActivePerl should register the file extension so that you just
have to type PerlFile.pl to launch it.
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