From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5324 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2003 15:29:03 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Dec 2003 15:29:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 11439 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2003 15:28:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6933 Received: (qmail 11373 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2003 15:28:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Dec 2003 15:28:46 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [199.185.220.224] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 20 Dec 2003 15:28:46 -0000 Received: from whaite.ca ([142.169.175.183]) by priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20031220152844.OLQ1538.priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net@whaite.ca> for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:28:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3FE46A4E.2020909@whaite.ca> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:27:10 -0500 From: Peter Whaite User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031130 Thunderbird/0.4a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Calling Perl scripts without the .pl References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric.D.Friedman@wellsfargo.com wrote: >What's odd about this is, of course, that '.pl' was never an extension that >meant "perl script" -- it was always "perl library" in just the way that >".pm" is now used for perl modules. But windows couldn't function without a >canonical extension name and so that little detail has been lost in the >hoary mists of time.... > > I like the Active state convention of '.plx', which I guess means 'perl executable'. But now I'm totally off topic.