Thanks. It says: perl="C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*, which is exactly what I found in the registry in the data field at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\pl_auto_file\shell\open\command. However, .pl is associated with C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe, i.e. not perl64. I tried to modify the command to remove the 64, but even though I thought I was running as administrator, the modify instruction wouldn't work. The alternative would be to aim all my perl instructions to perl64 instead of perl. Is there any advantage to using perl64 (v. 5.16.3)instead of perl (v. 5.12.4) on this 64 bit machine?

In reply to Re^2: Win7 doesn't fill @ARGV by hsfrey
in thread Win7 doesn't fill @ARGV by hsfrey

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