Re: Training Using Windows

> .pl files are associated with Perl during the AS install on some platforms
> (NT, notably).  YMMV.

Ah.  Then I can just do:

  C:\My Documents\Perl> Hello.pl

and it will run it that there Command Prompt window?

> 	#!perl -w
>
> Works peachy.

Great.

> > perldoc command
>
> Yes, but the pager used is a little...uh..lame.  Searching isn't there,
> going backwards doesn't always work and ^C sometimes causes an application
> error...

Ah.

> c:\perl\html has a nicely formatted set of docs under AS.

Is there any searching with this?  One of the things I like best is
being able to do things like:

  % perldoc -f mkdir

which is much harder to find with HTML docs.

> > second parameter to the mkdir() function
>
> Doesn't matter, it's ignored.

Hoped it would be.

Thanks a lot.  I'm feeling much better about this already!

Simon
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