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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:21:36 +0100
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* zzapper (2004-03-17 10:44 +0100)
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:39:58 +0100,  wrote:
>>* Martin Gainty (2004-03-16 21:56 +0100)
>>> How does one associate CYGWIN Perl with .pl extensions within CYGWIN
>>> environment?
>>
>> Same as in the Windows environment: "ftype" in connection with "assoc"
>> (or more convenient with "associate" from the ResourceKit).
>>
> On MKS I used to have this in a setup script .profile
> 
> (ftype is builtin to Windows Command) 
> 
> ftype Perl 'c:/usr/local/bin/perl.exe "%1" %*'
> 
> The advantage of FTYPE is that it allows you to specify which Perl you
> want used (when you might have several installed, and also to ignore
> the shebang which might be set for a distant server

The /disadvantage/ of "ftype" is that you cannot use it on its own.
First you have to create an association between the extension and a
"file type" with "assoc" and then an association between the file type
and the executable. "associate" let's you skip the first step.
 
> Better I could use Windows Environment variable PATHEXT
> 
>>echo $PATHEXT
> .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.php;.pl
> 
> so that I could call a perl script hello.pl
> 
> just with "hello"
> 
> Haven't got this to work with CYG

I don't think this can be done.

Thorsten


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