In that case, specify the name as "CON" (without the quotes of course. Let us know if it works:)

Close enough. The program dumped stuff directly to DOS console (not via Perl's print). But the stuff looked like 'characters', not binary. Thanks still.

Usiing CON as the filename will only get the output to the command line. To capture it into the program you should use open instead. Something like

open IN, "echo $script | $program |" or die $!;
binmode IN;
my $img = do{ local $/; <IN> };
close IN;
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See perlopentut for the details of grabing program output using open. This is necessary as you will need to use binmode to prevent the stream being interupted by ^Z.

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