Yes, I am using the ksh for solaris 7.

When entering into <STDIN> is that passing
through the korn shell? I can't seem to escape that \$
end of line character. Is there a way around this without
using a test file? (a file is looking like a fine idea right
about now though)

Thank you for you help.
Malus

PS
I have repeated my problem on the following:
SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m: perl v5.6.1 sun4-sunos
IRIX 6.5 IP32: perl v5.004_04
HP-UX B.11.00 9000/785: perl v4.0.36 (breaks on the 8th 65char string)
HP-UX B.10.20 9000/785: perl v5.6.1 PA-RISC1.1 (breaks on 8th, also)
FreeBSD 4.3 i386: perl v5.005_03 i386-freebsd (breaks on 16th word, 65char)