Re^4: Problems passing command line parameters to activestate perl on XP

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Thanks for the suggestion... Ok, PATHEXT was indeed missing the .PL extension so I added it, started a new cmd prompt, confirmed .PL at the end, but it still doesnt accept args without prefaced by "perl".

EDIT: further investigation tells me that PATHEXT merely enables me to omit the .pl extension at the command line.

Any more ideas?