in reply to Reading from the keyboard in Win32 without using STDIN

You might want to use File::Spec, which knows about special device files for different operating systems: 

    use File::Spec::Functions qw( devnull );
    open( OUT, ">".devnull() )  ||  die $!;

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and someone needs to submit a patch to provide a devtty() function. (:

                - tye
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