you might want to jump over to fatbrain or amazon or where ever and pick up a copy of dave roth's "win32 perl programming", and perhaps the newer "win32 perl scripting" as well. i pulled down my copy of the former and looked at the chapter concerning consoles and realized that you would be far better off reading the chapter yourself than having me synthesize a reply from the material.

these books ,imho, represent a wealth of material on win32 perl programming. in fact, as i recall, the "win32 perl scripting" book got an extremely positive review in this community a few months back.