under activestate's distrobution of perl,
the path to perl on the first line of a script
as long as the perl is in your PATH statement
all you've got to do is type 'perl srciptname.pl'
from the command prompt OR double click on the
icon, if you've associated the filetype w/ PERL

personally, i assosciated my .pl files with a
text editor

Tangent Warning

but that gives me a thought, does anyone know how to
add multiple associations? ... something that will
allow you to pull-up a little menu with right-click
and have the choice to run, edit, copy, paste, blah...
i wouldn't mind knowing how to do that if anyone
knows off the top of their head

i could even include 'open in excel' for text files and
all sorts of neat stuff

i'm sorry for the tangent :( i can't help it sometimes

In reply to RE: RE: Very basic question! by Buckaroo Buddha
in thread Very basic question! by Anonymous Monk

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