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From: wnp@iiasa.AT (Wolf PAUL)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl script in Msdos batch file
Message-ID: <1045@iiasa.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 91 07:03:59 GMT
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Organization: IIASA, Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria, Europe
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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.
) What I use is a "header" and a "trailer" to wrap the perl script in:
)  <code deleted>
) My question is, do you see problems with this solution?

Other than a lot of typing, no :-)

) Has it been done earlier?

I believe I have seen something like this earlier ...

) Can it be done better or more elegant? (this works on msdos 3.3
) script must be in your path, not just .)

Well, the most elegant way no doubt is to get 4DOS, a shareware replacement
for COMMAND.COM selling for less than US$ 50 (registered version).

It will let you say "set .pl=c:\bin\perl.exe", and will then automatically
hand files with the extension ".pl" to c:\bin\perl to execute.

That, in fact, is one feature I highly recommend to MS and DR for
addition to their MS-DOS 5.x and DR-DOS products.
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