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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: 16 Apr 91 05:10:28 GMT
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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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.

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