How do I associate Perl scripts with perl?
On Windows systems, association is the process of specifying which programs should be used for which kind of files. Files are grouped into file types, such as JPEG files or Perl scripts. The file type of a file is identified by its file name extension (all the letters after the last “.” in the file name). So, for example, we can say that there’s a type of file called a text file, which has the file extension .txt, and which is handled by the Notepad program. Usually, Perl for Win32 programmers create a file type like Perl Script and associate the extension .pl with that type. We specify that the perl interpreter binary, perl.exe, is responsible for that file type. Several Web servers require that you associate your scripts with perl.exe before the script can be run. On Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, you can create a new file type and associate the perl interpreter with it as follows: • Open the My Computer icon on the Desktop. The My Computer window should appear. • From the View men
