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I certainly did not think your post sounded either pompous or snobbish. I hope I didn't give you the impression that I thought that. I ran your snippet using backticks with dir. Output:

 Volume in drive C is OVID
 Volume Serial Number is 1A46-1A08
 Directory of C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Curtis' Stuff

.              <DIR>        01-27-01  9:14a .
..             <DIR>        01-27-01  9:14a ..
WWW            <DIR>        11-18-00 11:45a WWW
CGI_CO~1       <DIR>        09-30-00  2:31p cgi_course
ARCHIVE1       <DIR>        08-25-00  9:53a archive1
PERL           <DIR>        08-26-00 11:27a Perl
TIDY           <DIR>        10-15-00  5:33p tidy
DK       BAT            39  12-10-99  8:38p dk.bat

...[snip]...

HTMLTO~1 PL          2,968  06-18-01  7:25p HTMLtoCGI.pl
WEIRD~1  HTM         1,504  06-18-01  7:20p weird.html
        17 file(s)        161,721 bytes
         9 dir(s)     510,001,152 bytes free
$dirsize: 33
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I am using Win98 and ActiveState 5.6.0 on my home machine. Perhaps I'm lucky, I don't know, but Perl has never caused any problems on my box.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re(3): Perl on Win98 vs. Win/NT/2000? by Ovid
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