Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl

In article <1992Aug13.044323.1094@silogic.uucp> markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)) writes:
>In a recent posting, I saw a reference to #! emulation in MSDOS.  The
>posting showed a code fragment which was to be place at the front of the
>file:
>@REM=(qq!
>@echo off
>perl %0.bat %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
>@goto end :) if 0;
>After trying this, it became obvious that a line or two is required at
>the end of the file after the Perl code.  I'm not versed enough in Perl
>to figure out the lines at the end. 

You do not need any code at the end of the script, if you modify the @goto end
command to read just @end.  Then add an empty file in your path named end.bat.
When MS-DOS invokes a batch file from within another batch file, the code
behaves like a jump, not a call i.e. after the second batch file terminates
control will _not_ return to the original, invoking, batch file.  Thus then
empty end.bat batch file effectively adds a command to terminate batch files
to your system.

Diomidis
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