[MacPerl] Executing MacPerl script on a PeeCee

["Doug McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

I have a MacPerl script which uses no explicit library modules. Run as an
MPW tool it accepts a single command line argument which is the filename of
an output file. Runs fine.

So I send it via e-mail to a colleague who is using ActivePerl build 515 in
which control is via an MSDOS window under Windoze98.

I can enter a DOS command to execute the sample hello world script and it
runs OK. I can use perl -e "print time" and it works fine. When I give it
the command

perl myscript.pl outputfile.txt

I get absolutely nothing. -w doesn't help, -D seems to say that myscript
ended before it did anything. Changing the name of the script to a
nonexistant file generates a "can't find" message so I'm pretty sure perl is
attempting to run myscript.pl. There is no #! line in my script but then
there isn't one in the sample hello world script either.

Very early in the script I do

open OUTPUT ">".ARGV[0] or die "message";

I don't get the message. So... I'm off to the bookstore to learn perl for
Win32 (32 bit Windoze, not version 3.1) and I hate the thought. Has anyone
else faced my problem? I need a set of "Win32 perl for dummies" instructions
for me and my correspondent.

-->From the USA, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it.


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