Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 21:33:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Nancy McGough Subject: Re: precompiled perl? In-reply-to: <001b01be8a00$b8676710$0568d1d0@hunda> To: Cygwin Mailing List Message-id: Organization: Infinite Ink - mirrored at www.ii.com and www.best.com/~ii/ MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-X-Sender: ii AT shell13 DOT ba DOT best DOT com Thank you everyone for the pointer. When I looked at that page before I posted, it looked to me like all the files out there needed to be compiled. For people who are new to this world (like me), you might want to change the README to say "precompiled binary" rather than just "binary." I've now downloaded, bunzipped, and untarred it and successfully run a perl script! Here are a couple questions: The first line of my script is: #!perl and it works fine because perl is on my path. But, if perl weren't on my path, what is the best thing to put as the first line of the script. On my system perl is in C:\Cygnus\cygwin-b20\usr\local\bin but when I'm in the Cygwin bash window I'm not sure what's considered the root directory. Another Q: Is it possible to send a file to a Cygwin perl script from within Windows Explorer. E.g., by right clicking and choosing Send To and having the script be one of the Send To choices. Any pointers to launching Cygwin stuff from within Windows would be great. Thanks again, Nancy -- ŠNancy McGough http://www.ii.com Infinite Ink --= Sent via PINE: Power Internet News & Email for Win/Unix =-- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com