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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: MS Perl Questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.165742.12909@holos0.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 91 16:57:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.041441.4810@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <1991Mar1.041441.4810@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:
>I have just ftp'ed lenmsp41.zoo from devax.jpl.... and unpacked it on my PC.

>It appears to work fine. Thanks!

You're welcome.

>Just one question. Is there and equivalent of #!.../perl for MS dos .bat files?
>
>I had some example files from a previous release of msperl (which I deleted
>since I don't have MS C) and these had
>some stuff:

>@REM=("
>@perl 0%.bat ...
>@end=")

This often won't work, and it didn't really work in patch level 18 when d.d.s.
suggested doing it.  "End" doesn't mean anything to command.com.  (Perhaps
d.d.s. had a command.com that treated "end" as a directive to quit
interpreting the batch file'.)  After perl runs, command.com starts
executing the perl lines after "@end" which often--but not always--gives
errors.

I could not find a general solution to this problem.
-- 
Len Reed
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