roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (04/16/91)
I don't know why I never thought of this before... Instead of the kludgy batchfile wrapper for DOS Perl programs, 4dos users have another option. I happened across it in the 4dos TFM just now. 4dos allows you to declare other executable extensions with a simple environment variable! I already give my Perl programs a .pl extension, so I simply had to 'set .pl=c:\mybin\perl.exe' and my Perl scripts are now automagically executable. 4dos even searches the path for the executable. -- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu perl -e '$x = 1/20; print "Just my \$$x! (adjusted for inflation)\n"' [space reserved for clever quote]{mail your submissions}