Question

I’m trying to “hide” some of my Perl program from the end user to make things easier on them. I’m doing what I can to keep them out of the command prompt. The program itself has a GUI designed in Perl/Tk, so they don’t have to worry about the command prompt.

Could I write out a quick batch file that goes along the lines of:

START perl 'C:\[some path here]\myscript.pl'

with START to start a program, the Perl interpretor as my program, and the path/name of my Perl script as the parameter?

Would I have to specify where to find perl or would Windows just know because perl is in the computer’s PATH variable?

Answer 1

you don’t need “start” for this. either add perl.exe from your path or specify the full path to the perl interpreter.

so … put this in your batch file:

c:\program files\perl.exe "c:\whatever\myscript.perl"

-don