I have, for some years, used the -x option to bypass cruft at the beginning of perl scripts. The long involved reason for this has no place in this discussion, but it involves the need on certain Unix systems I used, to invoke perl via a shell preamble. So I have, at the beginning of most of my perl scripts,
#!/bin/sh ... shell cruft that invokes the right version of perl on certain Unix systems #!perl -w ... perl script here On Windows, there is no /bin/sh, of course, so I simply would change c:\>ftype Perl Perl=e:\perl\bin\perl.exe "%1" %* c:\>ftype Perl=e:\perl\bin\perl.exe -x "%1" %* c:\>ftype Perl Perl=e:\perl\bin\perl.exe -x "%1" %* The addition of -x to the perl invocation line caused the shell cruft to be ignored. I just upgraded from ActivePerl 626 to ActivePerl 631, and noticed two things, perhaps both are independent bugs, or perhaps the first caused the second. Observation #1: The installation of the Active Perl 631 .msi file never completed. It hung forever just after installation of the html help files, after taking that off the screen. However, for the most part, Active Perl 631 seems to function. Observation #2: After adding the -x to the ftype Perl as described above (reinstallation always wipes it out), attempting to run a perl script from the command line fails: c:\>f:\my\perl\script.pl Can't exec /bin/sh at F:\my\perl\script.pl line 1 c:\>e:\perl\bin\perl.exe -x f:\my\perl\script.pl c:\>ftype Perl Perl=e:\perl\bin\perl.exe -x "%1" %* c:\>assoc .pl .pl=Perl Note that it appears that running the script explicitly using perl -x, the shell cruft is ignored (as I want), and the script runs successfully. However, attempting to achieve the same effect via the file extension association, even though it appears to be set up correctly, no longer works. This is on Win2K Server, SP2. Any clues??? -- Glenn ===== Due to the current economic situation, the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
