Perl Version = 5.8.1 (ActiveState)
Running on Win2000 SP3

Here's my conundrum..

I have a very basic script that accepts parameters and prints them to the screen (dumbed down version of real issue). When I run the script ie C:\foo.pl foo bar

I get nothing.

When I explicitly call perl first, ie C:\perl foo.pl foo bar

It works just fine.

We uninstalled and reinstalled perl, and we have verified that the .pl extention is registered to use the "Perl Command Line Interpreter" (perl.exe)

Any ideas?

Also curious if the #!C:\Perl\bin\perl -w is of any value in the Win32 environment?

In reply to perl script on Win32 by jellyroll10

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