Sorry Tim. I thought after I wrote that perhaps I should have been very specific even though that would've also made it very long.
When I said, "I tried all the regular ways to change file extensions in XP." what you suggested is exactly what I tried -- many times. I even redid it again, just now, Exactly as you wrote it, in case perhaps pushing one button out of order could cause a failure. The same thing happens. The "Open with" window disappears and the program that opens the pl file extension remains the same. The only thing left that I can figure to try is: The delete button in that "Open with" window is grayed out (why I have no idea) so I though uninstall perl, delete .pl in the registry and reinstall perl. If that does nothing getting a new OS is looking better and better :) I wonder if Perl not being in the "Program Files" folder has anything to do with it not being on the list in the "Open with" window so that it is necessary to "browse." That list is somewhere in the registry, if I could find it and add perl to it??? Although some of them were so far over my head as to be non-readable Everyone Thanks you very much for all the responses. ms ________________________________ From: timothy adigun <2teezp...@gmail.com> To: Michael Smith <sybersm...@yahoo.com> Cc: "beginners@perl.org" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2013 11:40 AM Subject: Re: getting perl to open pl file extension in XP Hi On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Michael Smith <sybersm...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I know get a new OS :) > > First I installed strawberry perl but it has no GUItest and I couldn't get > guitest to install. Then I deleted strawberry and I installed > padre-on-strawberry because it says it already contains GUItest and now I > can't get anything but notepad to open the pl files. I have to type > perl.exe test.pl every time and I'm just way to lazy for that. > > I tried all the regular ways to change file extensions in XP. Perl.exe > isn't listed in the window, I hit the "browse" button go though the files > to perl.exe and hit open or double click and that window goes away but 'pl > files still open with notepad. I tried deleting the .pl in the registry and > entering pl as "new" but that didn't work either. > > I recently installed Strawberry Perl for one colleagues at work who what to learn Perl Programming. He also had this same problem. The following was what I did on his system using Win 7 OS: Right click on the perl program you what to run, then click on *open with*, then click on *Choose default Program*, then click on "*Browse*" Button, locate the "Perl Command Line Interpreter" in the bin folder for your perl installation in your system. Select it, and check the button "*Always use selected program to open this kind of file*". Click on the *OK* button. You should be able to run your perl program from your CLI. If your PATH is correctly set. Hope this helps. > Any help greatly appreciated. > > ms > -- Tim
