Can Perl Run from Shebang Line on BASH Shell on Windows 98 Computer?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- James E Keenan <jkeen@concentric.net> wrote:
> I am having problems running Perl on my Windows 98 machine using the Cygwin
> B-32 BASH shell. While I can run Perl from the command line, I cannot yet get
> "stand-alone" Perl programs to run, i.e., programs where Perl runs not
> because the command "perl -e" is evoked in the first position on the command
> line but rather because the ".pl" file itself has information concerning the
> location of the Perl interpreter on the computer.
> 
> Installation:             Perl version 5.005_03 built for MSWin32-x86-objec. 
> Binary build 522 from ActiveState Tool Corp.
> 


NON-CYGWIN programs will not know about the Cygwin mounted paths.  You will
need to use an absolute DOS path for the here document.  You will need to do
something like:

#! c:\\program\ folder\\perl\\bin\\perl

Caveat: Untested.


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