It doesn't work for me either. On my system it opens printargs.pl in notepad. Editing is the default action under Explorer. The shell shouldn't care about Explorer's settings. Now if I change the default action to Run, it works as expected. Better to use bash for these sorts of things. :) D:\backups>assoc .pl .pl=Perl
D:\backups>ftype Perl Perl="C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %* D:\backups>echo %pathext% .pl;.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH D:\backups>printargs a b c ## opens in notepad ## Change default action to Run D:\backups>printargs a b c ARGS: 'a' 'b' 'c' At 04:55 PM 3/9/2007 -0800, Bill Luebkert wrote: >For some reason, that's never really worked for me : -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede malis" 00000100 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
