Hello, I am having a bitch of time getting drag and drop to work with perl on Windows XP. It's been a while since I have been hacking around with perl.. So maybee Im just rusty. However, I remember doing this before with windows 98 no problemo. If I remember the jist.... You just use pl2bat on your perl script and then when you drop a file onto the batch file it is passed to your script in @ARGV... right??

Doesnt seem to work...
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#!perl 

print "TEST\n";
print "ARGV: ..@ARGV..\n";
<>;

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Then: 
c:\pl2bat test.pl
c:\test.bat
HELLO
ARGV: ....

c:\test.bat test.pl
HELLO
ARGV: ..test.pl..

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Ok seems to work...
Then I double click on the batch file... I get the expected. 
HELLO
ARGV: ....

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It waits for me to hit return then the cmd window closes.
If you drag and drop on to the batch file, the cmd window opens and then immediately closes...

vitals....
**Win Xp
**Activestate Perl
c:\perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.2 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 25 registered patches, see -V for more detail)
.... snip .......

.Any Suggestions???

thanks..
zzspectrez

In reply to Activestate Perl and "Drag and Drop" by zzspectrez

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