Minor fix for pl2bat.bat

A long time ago, on Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:02:25 PDT, Warren Jones wrote:
>Scripts created by pl2bat pass themselves to perl with "perl -x -X %0.bat". 
>Adding the ".bat" extension to %0 is unnecessary, since "perl -S" will
>try this automatically.  It makes the script impossible to run from
>the MKS Korn shell, since that shell alway invokes batch files using
>the full path and ".bat" extension.  Thus perl ends up getting a file
>name with *two* ".bat" extensions (foo.bat.bat) which doesn't work.
>A patch follows.
>
>Also, does anyone know why pl2bat uses "%1 %2 %3 ..." rather than %* ?
>Admittedly, all this dosish foolery is pretty lame.

%* does not work with 4DOS/NT. I just found out it can be made to
work there by setting C<ParameterChar = *> in the 4nt.ini file.

Since using %* eliminates the 9 arg limit for perl bat files,
I recommend this patch (which includes yours).

Credited: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>

p5p-msgid: 199707061843.OAA23874@aatma.engin.umich.edu

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