The Win32::Mutex does work on my release of perl.
I will have to readup on what this module does, Thanks!!!
I am still interested in gaining access to the command line arguments of perl. The information has to be in there somewhere because the NT Resource Kit utilities tlist.exe
lists it... C:>tlist.exe
2084 CMD.EXE Command Prompt c:\bin\perl.exe c:\src\prg.pl