Hi On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know get a new OS :) > > First I installed strawberry perl but it has no GUItest and I couldn't get > guitest to install. Then I deleted strawberry and I installed > padre-on-strawberry because it says it already contains GUItest and now I > can't get anything but notepad to open the pl files. I have to type > perl.exe test.pl every time and I'm just way to lazy for that. > > I tried all the regular ways to change file extensions in XP. Perl.exe > isn't listed in the window, I hit the "browse" button go though the files > to perl.exe and hit open or double click and that window goes away but 'pl > files still open with notepad. I tried deleting the .pl in the registry and > entering pl as "new" but that didn't work either. > > I recently installed Strawberry Perl for one colleagues at work who what to learn Perl Programming. He also had this same problem. The following was what I did on his system using Win 7 OS: Right click on the perl program you what to run, then click on *open with*, then click on *Choose default Program*, then click on "*Browse*" Button, locate the "Perl Command Line Interpreter" in the bin folder for your perl installation in your system. Select it, and check the button "*Always use selected program to open this kind of file*". Click on the *OK* button. You should be able to run your perl program from your CLI. If your PATH is correctly set. Hope this helps. > Any help greatly appreciated. > > ms > -- Tim
