in reply to Win7 doesn't fill @ARGV

How are you running your Perl scripts? Command line? Desktop shortcut? Drag and drop onto a shortcut? Double click in Explorer?

I use drag and drop to shortcuts on the desktop frequently. The target line in the shortcut looks like:

C:\Perl\bin\wperl.exe C:\Tools\MyTool.pl

Using the command line works exactly as expected. Double clicking in the Explorer opens a script for editing.

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