Re^2: Win7, ASSOCiation , and @ARGV

Thank you! Your response made me check %pathext% where .pl is missing:

C:>echo %pathext%
.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
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Of course, with no cygin (nor GNUtils) I have no grep or which but pursuing your other suggestions I ran across (BTW, en route, a suggestion to use setx PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.PL turned out to be invalid syntax - perhaps omitted from Win7, to judge by MS's documentation^{Note 1}) a MS support page which referred me... which referred me... etc... eventually to what may be a fix but which requires a reboot... so:

--more to come -- after the reboot :-(

Updated, post reboot:

^{Note 1} for earlier versions of Win, set ... was documented as valid ONLY for the session in which it was executed.

See also Re: Out of date over <> and 5.10 et seq where ikegami, BrowserUK, tye and Corion discuss quirks, peculiarities, ASSOC decisions by MS and AS's implementation of its use.

But recognize: adding .PL; .pl to %PATHEXT% was NOT a silver bullet; so I have more to seek/do, but this is already waaay too long, but one can hope others, similarly troubled may find some of this useful... so, some keys:

'@ARGV failure' '<>' 'Association' 'PATH' 'PATHEXT'

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Re^3: Win7, ASSOCiation , and @ARGV by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2012 at 13:35 UTC
a suggestion to use setx PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.PL turned out to be invalid synta Type help set and read that manual :) While you're at it read help assoc and help ftype	[reply]
Re^4: Win7, ASSOCiation , and @ARGV by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 14, 2012 at 14:11 UTC
Thank you. I thought some of my remarks above suggested that I'd failed to find an answer in any of those... Is there some particular piece that my prior remarks show that I ignored or misunderstood something?	[reply]
Re^5: Win7, ASSOCiation , and @ARGV by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2012 at 14:35 UTC
I thought some of my remarks above suggested that I'd failed to find an answer in any of those... Is there some particular piece that my prior remarks show that I ignored or misunderstood something? Um, I posted this before your update in response to invalid syntax ... regarding set. If pathext was going to work, it would have worked immediately, no need for rebooting. I'm out of ideas :)	[reply]
Re^6: Win7, ASSOCiation , and @ARGV by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 14, 2012 at 15:13 UTC
Re^7: Win7, ASSOCiation , and @ARGV by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 14, 2012 at 15:41 UTC
Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here