Re[2]: Perl and the MicroSoft NT/Win2000 GUI

2001-06-11 Thread Tim Musson
Thanks Jindra, Monday, June 11, 2001, 10:06:13 AM, you wrote: JV> Workaround is to use pl2bat script which encapsulates the perl JV> source within a .bat file and handles everything as necessary. JV> It is the way already suggested here, I just wanted to point out JV> the PL2BAT script, which i

Re: Perl and the MicroSoft NT/Win2000 GUI

2001-06-11 Thread Jindra Vavruska
IIRC Win don't pass arguments to programs started by "extension association" (even when Win Registry is set up completely). I don't know why this is. Workaround is to use pl2bat script which encapsulates the perl source within a .bat file and handles everything as necessary. It is the way alread

Re: Perl and the MicroSoft NT/Win2000 GUI

2001-06-09 Thread Tim Musson
Hey ggage, Friday, June 08, 2001, 12:17:50 PM, you wrote: gmc> I would like to run a perl script and pass in an argument (ARGV[0]) by gmc> dragging a textfile icon on to the perl script icon. This would be on an gmc> NT/Win2000 system using the icons in file manager, desktop, etc. The gmc> arg

Re: Perl and the MicroSoft NT/Win2000 GUI

2001-06-08 Thread Mark Folse
This #!/usr/bin/perl open THEOUTPUT, ">e:/test/output.txt"; while ( <$ARGV[0]> ) { print THEOUTPUT}; worked with this NT command file (NTWS 4 SP5) perl.exe e:\test\droptest.pl $1 Not sure why perl.exe wouldn't run it without an absolute path, but such are the ways of DOSney

Perl and the MicroSoft NT/Win2000 GUI

2001-06-08 Thread ggage
I would like to run a perl script and pass in an argument (ARGV[0]) by dragging a textfile icon on to the perl script icon. This would be on an NT/Win2000 system using the icons in file manager, desktop, etc. The argument passed in would be the path to the textfile. This works with a DOS batfil