Scenario: You would like to double click and execute .pl perl script files.
Run the following in Windows command prompt:
assoc .pl=PerlScript ftype PerlScript=C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe "%1" %* set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.PL
To allow IO redirection to work properly, you need to import the following Registry key:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "InheritConsoleHandles"=dword:00000001
Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4727480/how-do-i-make-my-perl-scripts-act-like-normal-programs-on-windows
This also talks about how to add a drop handler.
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