Your script is just a text file, it's not executable.
I'd have to disagree with that statement.
Yes, it is a text file, but on most flavors of windows, the file association should be made when perl is installed(this is true with an ActiveState Installer). This file will not be opened by a text editor if clicked. It will be opened by "perl"(right clicking will present other options).
Therefore on a command prompt: 
C:\>myscript.pl

[download]
should work. It also means that double clicking on a file will open a command prompt and cause the program to be executed by the perl interpreter "perl.exe". if this is not the case you can set associations up in:
My Computer->View->Options...->File Types
of course perl myscript.pl is preferable becase it allows you to specify all the nifty command line options

In reply to Re: Re: Perl On Win 98 by thunders
in thread Perl On Win 98 by Anonymous Monk

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