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From: "Matthew O. Persico" <matthew DOT persico AT verizon DOT net>
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:56:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:21:52 +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Martin Gainty (2004-03-17 12:59 +0100)
>> I this solution works on windows
>
>> But how do we get .pl association with CYGWIN Perl?
>
> I already answered this question. Let me explain it more simply: it
> can't be done with Cygwin; it has to be done in Windows. It won't
> benefit you "in Cygwin" (except for "cygstart").
>
> assoc /?
> ftype /?
> associate /?

And the really sick part is if you type

	ftype /?

the help text says, among other things:

" gets the 1st parameter, %3 the second, etc.  %~n gets all the remaining
parameters starting with the nth parameter, where n may be between 2 and 9,
inclusive.  For example:

    ASSOC .pl=PerlScript
    FTYPE PerlScript=perl.exe %1 %*

would allow you to invoke a Perl script as follows:

    script.pl 1 2 3"

I find it very funny that MS software is exampling one of the ultimate Open Source products!

--
Matthew O. Persico



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