Heh. No apology needed. Even if it was for a for-profit. :-) Ya gotta do whatchya gotta do!

If this is really true then that is the answer to my question.

(Un)fortunately I believe it is. Although i think it would take a skillful person to do it. But then that holds true of decompiling an executable too.

BING! Heres a _really_ nasty way to do something like what you want: write a C wrapper that embedds perl inside of it. Then put your perl script within the C wrapper (perhaps encrypted using some reliable C library) and then have the wrapper pass the code to the embedded perl instance to be executed. At least that way it becomes nearly impossible for some kind of man in the middle attack, or the other easily implemnted routes from the command line.

Dunno, could be a pipe dream, but i think it would have to be an especially talented and motivitated individual that figured that one out.

--- demerphq
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