At 9:24 AM -0500 11/26/02, Thomas R Wyant_III wrote: >Maybe shebangs are worth a try in VMS?
But that's a function of the shell, so unless "worth a try" means "make a feature request to your favorite DCL maintainer" I don't think that will work. I should point out that shebang lines in Perl scripts are recognized by Perl and any command-line switches therein will be picked up, but DCL does not look at it and definitely does not use it to determine that we're in a runnable script that should be invoked with Perl. >But there's the further question of the "execute" bit. I'm not sure it's >quite true that VMS does not have one (see "help set security/protection"), >but it _is_ true that the semantics are different than Unix (see your >absolutely true comment re DCL and shebang lines). If shebanging the script >doesn't work, maybe it's worth setting the "E" bits anyway? My impression is that on Unix the execute bit means not only that I have permission to run something but also that the thing is runnable, i.e., is an executable image or script. There are lots of things in my VMS directories to which I have E access that are not runnable programs or scripts. As far at the original question goes, it's possible an AddHandler directive is what's needed, though I haven't had time to test this out. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ-F.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html The question could be directed to HP support since CSWS is covered under standard contracts, and there may also be an Apache mailing list where the question would find better informed respondents. Someone mentioned that installing mod_perl does the necessary configuration for you, and that certainly sounds like the path of least resistance to me. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
