Re: .exe is mandatory :-(

2003-09-09 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Paul Kraus wrote: This brings up an interesting oddity that I have on my windows install. I can execute a script by just calling it Myscript.pl This works however if I need to pass arguments on the command line then it fails. I have to call it like this perl myscript.pl arg1 arg2

.exe is mandatory :-(

2003-09-08 Thread Shishir Saxena
I just installed perl and I don't know what settings I fiddled with, but now on Windows Command Prompt I am unable to execute perl scripts with somthing like, perl test.pl rather I have to do perl.exe test.pl same for any application ... everything has to be suffixed with a .EXE ... Please

Re: .exe is mandatory :-(

2003-09-08 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Shishir Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just installed perl and I don't know what settings I fiddled with, but now on Windows Command Prompt I am unable to execute perl scripts with somthing like, perl test.pl rather I have to do perl.exe test.pl same for any application ... everything

Re: .exe is mandatory :-(

2003-09-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Shishir Saxena wrote: I just installed perl and I don't know what settings I fiddled with, I trust that YOU did not fiddle with any settings. Fiddling with nsettings is agood recipe for making a Perl installation fail--especially if you do not know which ones you changed. If you are working

RE: .exe is mandatory :-(

2003-09-08 Thread Paul Kraus
? -Original Message- From: R. Joseph Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:49 PM To: Jenda Krynicky Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .exe is mandatory :-( Jenda Krynicky wrote: From: Shishir Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just installed perl and I don't know