Re: Two easy questions.
Your answer actually lies in the system that you are using first. The reason the CGI scripts hold the .cgi extension. Is because that is what your webserver uses to grab your CGI scripts from your CGI directory. As for using perl myscript. That is a windows thing. If I remember correctly (Don't qoute me on this, because I don't use perl on windows.) but if you run your script in the directory that you have perl installed in, you don't need the perl part. Hopefully I have explained it clearly enough, sorry it is rather late, and I am friggin tired, if when I read this in th morning it sounds shitty, I will reword it and re-email it. Drue Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Truly newbie questions Why do some scripts have a CGI extension while other a .pl and still other a .plx? Does the .cgi extension give it some web characteristics? Is there a way to run my script without specifying perl before the script? In other words, I want to type c:\myscript.plx instead of c:\perl myscript.plx. Thanks, Drue - Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!
Re: Two easy questions.
yes.I think your question is making the 'perl command interpret' default to excute the plx file that you made.You can make the configration in windos to solve the problem. -Sandy Drue Reeves wrote: Truly newbie questions Why do some scripts have a CGI extension while other a .pl and still other a .plx? Does the .cgi extension give it some web characteristics? Is there a way to run my script without specifying perl before the script? In other words, I want to type c:\myscript.plx instead of c:\perl myscript.plx. Thanks, Drue -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Two easy questions.
If you are in 2K or XP you can go to the System Properties screen. In there click on the advanced tab then Environment Variables. Under System Variables locate PATHEXT. Add ;.pl to the end of the list then click OK. The system should allow for executing .pl files. As long as you have the #!.. info at the top of the file you should be OK. Regards, -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==-- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Two easy questions.
Truly newbie questions Why do some scripts have a CGI extension while other a .pl and still other a .plx? Does the .cgi extension give it some web characteristics? Is there a way to run my script without specifying perl before the script? In other words, I want to type c:\myscript.plx instead of c:\perl myscript.plx. Thanks, Drue
RE: Two easy questions.
Never heard of a .plx, but the .pl and .cgi are really just naming convention. Having said that if you are running activestate perl, it normally installs with .pl associated with perl (but not cgi). If you are running nt4 (2k?) or greater you should be able to run myscript.pl without putting perl in front I think you can set up apache to only run (for example) .cgi's and not .pl's but I never have. -Original Message- From: Drue Reeves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:58 To: Gunnar Hjalmarsson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Two easy questions. Truly newbie questions Why do some scripts have a CGI extension while other a .pl and still other a .plx? Does the .cgi extension give it some web characteristics? Is there a way to run my script without specifying perl before the script? In other words, I want to type c:\myscript.plx instead of c:\perl myscript.plx. Thanks, Drue This email message (and any accompanying file attachments) may contain copyright, confidential or privileged information and is intended for the sole use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify Australian Fast Foods Pty Ltd by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. Any unauthorised review, use, alteration, disclosure or distribution of this email (including attachments) by an unintended recipient is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, Australian Fast Foods Pty Ltd does not represent that this message or any attached files are free from computer viruses. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Two easy questions.
You appear to be on a Windows system. The file extensions on Windows are for association. Hence, to answer your second question first, if you're on ActiveState Perl, all .pl extensions are automatically associated with perl, if you did it right, and just typing 'foo.pl' in the shell should run it. .cgi, .pl, etc. It doesn't matter to the interpreter. It may however matter to how it is treated by the OS and other programs, such as a server. -- -will http://www.wgunther.tk (the above message is double rot13 encoded for security reasons) Most Useful Perl Modules -strict -warnings -Devel::DProf -Benchmark -B::Deparse -Data::Dumper -Clone -Perl::Tidy -Beautifier -DBD::SQLite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: Two easy questions.
Hi! assoc and ftype commands are used to associate extension for particular file types.. Is there a way to run my script without specifying Perl before the script? In other words, I want to type c:\myscript.plx instead of c:\perl myscript.plx. yes you can, try assoc /? and ftype /? it'll tell how to associates file types. HTH Raymond -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two easy questions. You appear to be on a Windows system. The file extensions on Windows are for association. Hence, to answer your second question first, if you're on ActiveState Perl, all .pl extensions are automatically associated with perl, if you did it right, and just typing 'foo.pl' in the shell should run it. .cgi, .pl, etc. It doesn't matter to the interpreter. It may however matter to how it is treated by the OS and other programs, such as a server. -- -will http://www.wgunther.tk (the above message is double rot13 encoded for security reasons) Most Useful Perl Modules -strict -warnings -Devel::DProf -Benchmark -B::Deparse -Data::Dumper -Clone -Perl::Tidy -Beautifier -DBD::SQLite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
