This seems more OSish than Perlish, but there is certainly a tie to
perl...
Back in a younger day, when DOS v3.3 ruled, we all found that appending
to PATH was dicey since whether it worked depended on whether the last
guy to do so put a terminating ";" in place. Otherwise, silent failures.
It was easier to prepend with an assured ";" at the tail of our own
addition than to use the batch file tools to determine whether a
trailing ";" was present (nobody wanted to waste precious bytes with
unnecessary ";"s-- we only had 127 chars for the entire path statement,
which was tight on those early networks).
Did you check whether the PATH causing the failure has semicolons in all
the right places? You may yet have other problems in your configuration.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sisyphus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 4:36 AM
Subject: Path in autoexec.bat
> Hi,
> When I first installed perl on my PC I was unable to run perl scripts
by
> entering at the prompt:
> perl somefile.pl
> Instead I had to specify the path to the perl interpreter. So, to run
> somefile.pl I would enter:
> \perl\bin\perl somefile.pl
>
> This was the case, even though the 'PATH' variable contained the
setting
> 'C:\PERL\BIN;'
>
> It wasn't until I added 'SET PATH=C:\PERL\BIN;%PATH%' to the
autoexec.bat
> file that I was able to run scripts by entering:
> perl somefile.pl
>
> Can someone explain this to me - why was the 'PATH' setting, by
itself,
> unable to provide the functionality I was after ? What functionality
does it
> provide ?
> And does that 'PATH' setting (in regards to perl) currently serve any
useful
> purpose now that 'SET PATH' is specified ?
> Things are now working fine - but these questions still bug me.
>
> I should add that the scripts I was running were not being run from
the root
> directory (ie. I'd first 'cd' to the directory in which the scripts
were
> saved, and run them from that directory). I mention that in case it's
> relevant.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
> Visit our website at http://www.kalinabears.com.au
>
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