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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: DOS, 4dos and Perl
- Message-ID: <6JDH11w164w@cybrspc>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 00:10:28 CDT
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
-
- I don't know why I never thought of this before...
-
- Instead of the kludgy batchfile wrapper for DOS Perl programs, 4dos
- users have another option. I happened across it in the 4dos TFM just
- now. 4dos allows you to declare other executable extensions with a
- simple environment variable!
-
- I already give my Perl programs a .pl extension, so I simply had to
- 'set .pl=c:\mybin\perl.exe' and my Perl scripts are now automagically
- executable. 4dos even searches the path for the executable.
-
- --
- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu
- perl -e '$x = 1/20; print "Just my \$$x! (adjusted for inflation)\n"'
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