A friend of my, that like to test all the Windows versions, send me a chunk of code in Perl, that he founds inside the Windows XP installation CD!

The file is RUNW32.BAT, and the author is 'kumarp'. Looking at google he founds this e-mail: kumarp@microsoft.com

Soo, what this Perl code is making there, if the installation CD doesn't have Perl?!

Here's the code: 

my $usage_help = "Usage: runw32.bat [any option valid for winn32.exe]"
+; 
 
if ($ARGV[0] =~ /[-\/]([hH?]|(help))/i) 
{ 
 print $usage_help; 
 exit; 
} 
 
if (rindex($0, '\\') >= 0) 
{ 
 $curdir = substr($0, 0, rindex($0, '\\')); 
} 
else 
{ 
 $curdir = `cd`; 
} 
 
chomp($curdir); 
 
$tempDir = $ENV{"TEMP"}; 
$winnt32_src = $curdir; 
$winnt32_dst = "$tempDir\\winnt32"; 
print "Please wait while files are being copied from $winnt32_src to $
+winnt32_dst...\n"; 
`xcopy /q/s/d $winnt32_src\\*.* $winnt32_dst`; 
die "...error copying files from $winnt32_src: $!\n" if ($? != 0); 
 
$nt5_src=$curdir; 
if ($nt5_src =~ /(.+)winnt32$/i) 
{ 
 $nt5_src = $1; 
} 
 
$cmdline = "$winnt32_dst\\winnt32.exe /s:$nt5_src " . join(" ", @ARGV)
+; 
print "$cmdline\n"; 
`$cmdline`;

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I don't know if this exists in all the XP installations, but if you have one, take a look and send some reply! ;-P

Graciliano M. P.
"Creativity is the expression of the liberty".

In reply to Windows XP installation using Perl? by gmpassos

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