Re: BAT scripts in bin\ directory

'Michael Ludwig' <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:20:09 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.active-perl
Message-ID <20120228002009.GA5496@Dago>
Howard Tanner schrieb am 27.02.2012 um 08:00 (-0500):
> > My question is:
> >
> > Do the BAT scripts contain a copy of the Perl script to be backward- 
> > compatible with some old version of cmd.exe ? 
> 
> Yes, the comspec environment variable points to the command processor
> to use, and commands like CALL will honor this value. In the old
> non-NT kernel versions of Windows […]

Thanks for this knowledgeable and historically insightful answer!

Michael
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