G'day Orangutan,

Yes, I found out about the './ and '.\ early on when I tried just 'test_platform.pl'. There was a lot of output, which I won't post here; however, the last part of that had 'Suggestion [3,General]: The command test_platform.pl was not found, but does exist in the current location. Windows PowerShell does not load commands from the current location by default. If you trust this command, instead type: ".\test_platform.pl". ...'.

This is pretty much the same as UNIX-like systems when '.' is not in the path. Using my Cygwin: 

$ test_platform.pl
-bash: test_platform.pl: command not found
$ ./test_platform.pl
Platform: cygwin
Executable: /home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/bin/perl

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So, from PowerShell 

perl test_platform.pl
perl ./test_platform.pl
perl .\test_platform.pl

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all work identically to how I described 'perl ./test_platform.pl' in the OP. And 

./test_platform.pl
.\test_platform.pl

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both work identically to how I described './test_platform.pl' in the OP.

Anyway, what you've described regarding how the Perl interpreter is called, does make sense, and probably answers Question 2. It's a pity, because I'd prefer not to have to type 'perl' before every script name; still, it is only for a work project and won't generally affect me as I'm normally using Cygwin.

I also noticed that you'd signed up only a fortnight ago; so please accept a belated welcome to the Monastery.

— Ken

In reply to Re^2: Handling MSWin Script Output by kcott
in thread Handling MSWin Script Output by kcott

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