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Re^4: Starting Strawberry in Win7by BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Aug 17, 2014 at 20:32 UTC ( [id://1097759]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I use Perl under Windows only about 3 or 4 times per year (and am thus really not a specialist for that particular platform ... Perhaps you should let others answer then. I very much doubt that issuing the test command at the command prompt will launch the test.pl perl program. It does! If the environment is set up correctly. When a command (without a path or extension, like "test") is typed on the command line, first the variable PATHEXT=.pl;.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD; is consulted, and each of the extensions found there are, in turn, added to the command before the path is searched for an 'executable', and the first one found is then run. In the case of PATHEXT above, test.pl, will take priority over test.com, which will take priority over test.exe which ... With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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