D:\perl\bin must be in your path to find perl.exe, but if you don't have cmd.exe in your path then there are a lot of other things that can break, most notably batch files. All of the perldocs are made using perl2bat batch files, so you must be able to see cmd.exe.
Also, I think you might be misunderstanding the way perl works at the command line. If you type in this: C:\> perl print "hello\n"; ^C then you are exiting perl before it reaches the EOF character, which is ^Z in Windows. Try this: C:\> perl print "Hello\n"; ^Z -----Original Message----- From: cory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 4:17 PM To: Timothy Johnson Subject: Re: Can't spawn cmd.exe no my PATH is D:\perl\bin\; also I can run pre written scripts such as the example.pl when I am in this directory D:\PERL\BIN> and I type perl example.pl But when I type print "hello\n"; and then hit enter or CTRL C nothing happens. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'cory'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 6:04 PM Subject: RE: Can't spawn cmd.exe > > Actually, yes, that could cause a lot of problems if cmd.exe is not in your > path. Check your path variable. Do you have %system%\system32 in there? > If not, then it might be time to add it and possibly get rid of some things > in there if you know that you can safely remove them, such as entries added > by old programs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: cory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Can't spawn cmd.exe > > > When I type perldoc perl at the command prompt I get the following: > Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at D:\Perl\bin\PERLDOC.bat > line 395 Is this why I can not get perl to work > Cory Moore > Campaign Manager > Pat Ahumada for Congress > www.patforcongress.com > www.americanvirtue.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
