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From: dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: MS Perl Questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.030351.24749@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 91 03:03:51 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.041441.4810@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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In article <1991Mar1.041441.4810@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:
 ....
>Just one question. Is there and equivalent of #!.../perl for MS dos .bat files?
 ...
>@REM=("
>@perl 0%.bat ...
>@end=")
>

I have found that sometimes using 'exit' instead of 'end' works.
also add "if 0;" to end of '@end' line.
This may be msdos version specific.

I have used it both ways on the appropriate versions of dos
and it does work.

I just ran this on my ms-dos pc.

@REM=("
@c:\usr\perl %0.bat %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
@exit ") if 0;

print "hello world\n";

you may want to use your correct path to perl,
although I believe that @perl... will work well also.


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