Steve Hay wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> >Which operating systems ship perl 5 as core?
> >
> Not quite core, but even Microsoft ships OS add-ons with Perl
> in them:
> e.g. Windows 2000 Resource Kit contains ActivePerl 521, and
> Services For
> Unix 3.5 contains ActivePerl 613.
And they mention its use as a tool for various tasks in numerous places in
their knowledge base and in the default help materials. For those that would
have never seen it the cmd help tool on at least Win2k and later uses Perl
as an example for the "ftype" command. (And they even got the spelling right
:-)
C:\Temp>help ftype
Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations
FTYPE [fileType[=[openCommandString]]]
fileType Specifies the file type to examine or change
openCommandString Specifies the open command to use when launching files
of this type.
Type FTYPE without parameters to display the current file types that
have open command strings defined. FTYPE is invoked with just a file
type, it displays the current open command string for that file type.
Specify nothing for the open command string and the FTYPE command will
delete the open command string for the file type. Within an open
command string %0 or %1 are substituted with the file name being
launched through the assocation. %* gets all the parameters and %2
gets the 1st parameter, %3 the second, etc. %~n gets all the remaining
parameters starting with the nth parameter, where n may be between 2 and 9,
inclusive. For example:
ASSOC .pl=PerlScript
FTYPE PerlScript=perl.exe %1 %*
would allow you to invoke a Perl script as follows:
script.pl 1 2 3
If you want to eliminate the need to type the extensions, then do the
following:
set PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT%
and the script could be invoked as follows:
script 1 2 3
