Beau, Perhaps then my question would have been better to ask on the CGI list. The script in question is a CGI script being executed through Internet Explorer and Apache. When the first line of my script is "#!perl", the script executes as desired. When the first line is "#!usr/bin/perl", the result is an Internal Server Error page and a message in the log file that says that the child process can't be spawned.
RobR --- "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am really confused by your statement that on Win98 the first script > line is used AT ALL. On the windows platforms I have used to > run perl script (Win95, (maybe 98), ME, NT, 2000, XP) the system > has no concept of reading the script to determine what executable > to use. Are you using a special shell (cygwin, msys, etc.) or > running from the standard cmd.com? The standard windows cmd.com > will attempt to execute _any_ file with the extensions .exe, > .bat, and maybe still .com. It has no concept of the 'executable' > permission bit becuase the is no such thing in the Windows/DOS file > attributes. > > The standard windows shell uses a file association table so that > an extension, say .pl, can be associated with perl.exe. > > Please help me understand the behaviour you describe. > > Aloha => Beau; > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
