Re: Oddity with 5.12.2 and file associations

Hope it isn't considered bad form to reply to your own post, but I wanted to
pass along what I found as I peeled the layers of the onion...

It appears that the v5.12.2 installer creates file associations so that in
Windows Explorer you can right click a .pl file and select "Execute Perl
Program" or "Syntax Check".

Searching the registry, I find that .pl files are associated as
"Perl_program_file" and that "Execute Perl Program" is set
to "C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" %1

If use ftype to set the command to open the script as follows:
ftype Perl_program_file="C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*
Then ftype creates
the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Perl_program_file\shell\Open\command" and everything
works.


So, in future releases could
the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Perl_program_file\shell\Open\command" registry
default entry be created as ""C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*" or
could we update the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Perl_program_file\shell\Execute Perl
Program\command" registry default entry to
""C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*" (or both) ?

Thanks,
Paul