Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 631
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at Jan 2 2002 17:16:22

This is working on my laptop, but I have tried command lines in the past that didn't work because of the backticks. I just thought it was some MS thing and did them in a linux window. I'm so use to running into MS problems on the active state perl that I just don't pay attention much anymore. however

perl -e "@dir=`dir`; print\"Hello, $dir[0]\""
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gives the proper responce.

Glenn H.