No, because perlcc has never worked and doesn't exist for new versions of Perl.

But you can accomplish what you want with a trivial batch file.

@echo off
:: This is "parse_excel.bat"
perl "C:\Path To\parse_excel.pl" %1
pause
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Place the batch file in the same directory as the .pl (or wherever you want) and create a shortcut (named however you want) to it in the "Send To" folder.

Update: Switched to more representative file names.
Update: You could even use pl2bat to convert your .pl into a batch file.

I missed your desire for it to work with multiple files. Use %* instead of %1 in the batch file.

@echo off
:: This is "parse_excel.bat"
perl "C:\Path To\parse_excel.pl" %*
pause
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The names of the selected files will be present in @ARGV

for my $xl_file_name (@ARGV) {
   ...
}
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perlcc has never worked

It worked a little in 1996... I used it for some small things... But even back then, people warned you away from it.

-Paul

HTH ,

Perhaps Re: excelPerl V0.13 released might help you:

excelPerl.pl 
    -begin "use Text::CSV_XS; $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new( { binary => 1}
+ )" 
    -ane "$csv->combine(@F); print $csv->string, $/"
    -f file.xls
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(Just put it all in one line)

Spreadsheet::Read comes with xls2csv and xlscat (actually the first uses the second), which does exactly what you ask for: convert M$Excel to plain text or CSV, using SPreadsheet::ParseExcel and Text::CSV_XS.