Andreas Tscharner <starf...@sunrise.ch> writes: > This is true for Unix/Posix systems, but unfortunately not for Windows > systems. And if the maintainer of a great Perl script wants his script > to work on both platforms, he'll probably will name it > GreatPerlScript.pl If the extension .pl is linked with a Perl > interpreter in Windows, he'll be able to run it on both systems without > a prepending "perl"
If he names it GreatPerlScript on Unix and GreatPerlScript.pl on Windows, he'll be able to run it on both systems as GreatPerlScript. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org