Re: What is this rule for?
Andreas Tscharner <starfire@sunrise.ch> writes:
> This is true for Unix/Posix systems, but unfortunately not for Windows
> systems. And if the maintainer of a great Perl script wants his script
> to work on both platforms, he'll probably will name it
> GreatPerlScript.pl If the extension .pl is linked with a Perl
> interpreter in Windows, he'll be able to run it on both systems without
> a prepending "perl"
If he names it GreatPerlScript on Unix and GreatPerlScript.pl on Windows,
he'll be able to run it on both systems as GreatPerlScript.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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