Re: -mhpattern on NT systems?

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On December 8, 2000 at 19:46, Gerry Hickman wrote:

> > Under WinNT, you can use mhonarc.pl.  It should be more efficient
> > since perl should be invoked directly due to file type association.
> > It also avoids the shell redirection problems when depending on
> > mhonarc.bat.
> 
> Hmmm, maybe this will solve all the problems but what syntax do I use?
> Is it something like:
> 
> c:\perl\bin\perl.exe mhonarc.pl inbox -mhpattern "^*.CNM" -outdir outbox

When using the command shell, you just do:

  prompt> mhonarc.pl -mhpattern "^*.CNM" -outdir outbox inbox

As long as mhonarc.pl is in your search path.  If using the ActiveState
port of Perl, it associates .pl files with perl.exe so you can invoke
.pl files directly from the command shell.

--ewh