On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Lennart Borgman wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > Or you can chmod +x it. That's longer lasting! ;-)
For Dave: "achieve the same effect"..."no matter what the permissions are" -- you can't, for example, launch a .html file from a bash shell at all. "cygstart" will always work. > > Plus it could even be done as part of the perl script, and then the > > problem would just /never/ arise again and wouldn't need to remember > > to use 'start' or 'cygstart' to launch it. > > Thanks Dave, but what would "chmod +x" be in perl? Is there an easy way > to do it? (Hope this is not too much OT, it is clearly useful here.) "perldoc -f chmod". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/