Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:47:56 +0100 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-174.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de * Martin Gainty (2004-03-19 15:48 +0100) > I have the greatest respect for the incredible job that the CYGWIN > maintainers have done with BASH shell. According to "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/bash-2.05b.README" the Cygwin bash is almost plain vanilla. So the Cygwin maintainers have done a terrific job with Cygwin but not much with bash. > But the last time I used a bash shell on a Unix platform I was able > to setup the .pl to perl association but I cannot within CYGWIN. Hear, hear - you never mentioned this. So what did you actually do under this Unix platform and what were the actual error messages when you tried the same thing under Cywin?! > this is a nice to have feature which I would prefer to boost to a > "must have" feature Use the new zsh (in bash compatibility mode to make your bash scripts run) - that's what my posting was about. -- 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/