Hi all, This mystery has bugged me for some time. A convenient way to run a perl script against a bunch of files is to use drag and drop onto a .bat file that has been created with "pl2bat". However, on NT (or Win2000), I get the impression that there might be a better way. Certainly, by associating perl with the .pl extension and adding .pl to the PATHEXT environment variable, you can eliminate the need for pl2bat for creating general purpose, command line .bat files. However, these changes do NOT give you drag and drop. My question: Is there a way to set up NT/W2000 to allow drag and drop on to a .pl icon? I've searched high and low and in between... Thanks, fredt

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