On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:10:37AM -0000, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > nmake/Windows will never recognise #!, and Windows won't execute
> > a file without a known extension anyway, I believe.
> 
> When told to execute "pod2man", windows will look for
>    pod2man.bat
>    pod2man.cmd
>    pod2man.com
>    pod2man.exe
> not necessarily in that order, anywhere on the PATH. It will not consider a
> file with any other (or no) extension.

Quite right. I think the environment variable PATHEXT is supposed
to control this list, although I'm not convinced that it works
correctly.


Hamish
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