I've been fighting a few Windows boxes here that are balky with assoc and ftype. What I've found is that:
1) You can't have any perl processes open when you run the fype and assoc commands. 2) You have to run ftype first and assoc second. 3) You must be an Administrator account when you run the fype and assoc commands. 4)*** You must run the fype and assoc commands in a window that your started by RIGHT CLICKING A SHORTCUT for cmd.exe and you MUST chose RUN AS AN ADMINISTRATOR. Just being an administrator and opening a command window is not enough. ftype PerlScript="C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %* assoc .pl=PerlScript Obviously, change the path to Perl as per your local install. -- Matthew O. Persico Lazard 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 212 632 6136 From: kmx <k...@atlas.cz> To: win32-vanilla@perl.org Date: 04/17/2014 07:53 AM Subject: Re: Run an external program and capture its output On 17.4.2014 13:49, John Emmas wrote: > On 17/04/2014 11:34, sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: >> . >>> This is one that comes up from time to time - it's not specific to >>> Strawberry Perl, and has to do with file associations and something >>> else .... a registry setting ? ... I can never remember the details, >>> nor of how to search for it. >> >> Aaah ... here's the solution I was thinking of: >> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1024609 >> > > Wow, I'm amazed! I've been programming on Windows for nearly 30 years, > yet I never encountered this problem before. Nevertheless you're > absolutely right Rob. Placing the word "perl" at the start of my command > line solved the problem! Sadly, the fix suggested by that article didn't > work in my case - but no matter, at least I've got a solution now. > > One more question - is there a way to obtain the Windows version > information using a perl script? For example, can I obtain the value of > WINVER somehow? Check https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32#Win32::GetOSDisplayName and https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32#Win32::GetOSVersion -- kmx
