Sorry, but I haven't got to Windows 7 yet, so I've not had to look for a solution to this. You'll need to look/ask elsewhere (try MS forums?).

  1. I do have to wonder why you have to use OLE to start wscript when you can do that directly from perl:
        system 'wscript arg1 arg2';

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  2. And why do you you need to use Wscript to run a batch file, when that can be done directly from Perl:
        system q[x:\path\to\thebatch.bat];

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  3. And why do you need to run a batch file in order to run perl.exe, when that can be done directly from Perl:
        system qq[$^X c:\\path\\to\\thePerlScript.pl arg1 arg2];

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But I assumed that there must be very special circumstances for what you are doing because no one could arrive at that level of unnecessary indirection by accident.

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In reply to Re^3: perl subroutine in XMetaL macro - $path not being passed to batch file on Windows 7 by BrowserUk
in thread perl subroutine in XMetaL macro - $path not being passed to batch file on Windows 7 by spb54

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