Re: ActivePerl not working

If you are trying to do all this through Windows Explorer, for instance, be prepared for this UI to 'lie' to you. The file is probably named "Hello World.pl.txt, which is why it is a standard icon, rather than a Perl icon. If you open the file again with Notepad (or whatever) and use "File / SaveAs" to explicitly save the file as the name "Hello World.pl" you might start to see it with a Perl icon.

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Re: Re: ActivePerl not working by Anonymous Monk on Sep 24, 2003 at 17:13 UTC
I tried as suggested and it still doesnt show as a Perl icon and the script doesnt work. Any other suggestions??	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: ActivePerl not working by shenme (Priest) on Sep 24, 2003 at 17:27 UTC
Hmmm, okay, you mentioned that you saw Explorer show you the Perl icons (little yellow 'pearl'?) when displaying /Perl/bin/perl . Does it also show those same icons for file 'config', which is really named 'config.pl'? If the same icon doesn't show up for both, then it is as pzbagel mentioned - the file associations haven't been setup. That should have been done by the ActivePerl install. If you feel nervous about doing pzbagel's procedure, maybe uninstalling Perl, then reinstalling and _allowing_ the ActivePerl install to update the file associations would be best.	[reply]