in reply to Re: Perl Interpreter
in thread Perl Interpreter

If the computer is asking "Open with..", I'd put my money on some flavour of Windows.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^3: Perl Interpreter
by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 08, 2004 at 19:02 UTC
    That would be my guess as well, but there are so many forms and versions of Windows that just guessing "Windows" is still too vague.

    Also if it was on some form of Unix/Linux, the "shebang" line would work and the problem would just not exist.

    CountZero

    "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

      if it was on some form of Unix/Linux, the "shebang" line would work

      Not if he wants to run the perl from his keydrive and mount points vary.

      Makeshifts last the longest.

        Point taken: so perhaps you can first run a batch file to re-mount your keydrive to some other mount point which is expected by your perl scripts.

        Mmmm, there's an idea for Windows in it: run a batch file which associates the .pl extension with the Perl-interpreter and which pushes the path to the interpreter onto the PATH-environment variable.

        CountZero

        "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law