Well perhaps this is one of those newbie things but I was under the impression that for file handling I need IO modules that Cygwin provides and a C compiler that Strawberry provides.

For example in one of my scripts I want to open a Windows text file, read it and write it to another file. The vendor provided IO::pty in their distribution but no other file handling modules. they provided modules like expect.pm, SSH::expect, APP::TFTP, etc. I believe I need to include IO::FILE but it doesn't work in Windows unless you have Cygwin.

I tried using just Strawberry but it wouldn't download IO::FILE (not supported in Windows). Strawberry seems just fine except for this IO issue.