title: How do I run programs with Strawberry Perl?
body: <p>A coworker is trying to use <a href="http://betterthangrep.com" rel="noreferrer">ack</a> (a Perl program) on his Windows machine, having tried it under Linux and decided he definitely wants to use it.  He managed to get <a href="http://www.strawberryperl.com" rel="noreferrer">Strawberry Perl</a> installed on his machine, but can't seem to figure out what to do to make ack run with it from a command prompt.  He tried editing the #! line, but I knew that wouldn't work.  I'm pretty sure Strawberry perl is in his PATH.</p>
  
  <p>What do you need to do to run a general Perl program in your PATH on Windows using Strawberry?</p>
  
  <p>Update: I'm seeing some information online about the PATHEXT variable, but not enough.</p>