[perl-win32-gui-users] pathext issue with start, run vs command line

[Thomas, T. B <tim...@lm...>]

This isn't strictly WIn32:GUI, but it's related. I have .pl and .gpl
associated with perl.exe and guiperl.exe respectively where guiperl is the
console-less executable. I also have the pathext environment variable set to
include .pl and .gpl. I also have all my useful scripts in one location and
that location is in the path. So this means I can run script.gpl by entering
just "script"  from anywhere on the system. This works great, the problem
is, I can't do the same by clicking on Start then Run. If I enter my script
with the extension it works just fine, but without it, it doesn't find it.
So it seems to be a PATHEXT issue. This seems to be the case for both
Windows NT and Windows 2000. Has anyone tracked this problem down any
further to determine why start, run doesn't work the same as the command
prompt? Any solutions out there to this issue?
	Thanks,
		Tim Thomas