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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl script in Msdos batch file
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Date: 5 May 91 08:37:03 GMT
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andre@targon.UUCP (andre) writes:

> Now that we have perl also running on msdos, I thought up a way to put
> perl script inside msdos batch files in the same way we do in sh scripts.
> 
> My question is, do you see problems with this solution?
> Has it been done earlier?
> Can it be done better or more elegant? (this works on msdos 3.3
> script must be in your path, not just .)

Elegance, you say? Certainly, you can do it more elegantly... just use
4dos for your command interpreter, and do 'set .pl=c:\path\to\perl'.
Now, any filename ending in .pl will be submitted to perl.

(the usual rejoinder about the natural superiority of 4dos over
command.com has been deleted, since this isn't a DOS-specific group :-)

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