A few of the obvious points:
  1. Use modules for anything you would drop into the OS for. File::Spec, File::Copy, etc. (It turns out that File::Copy is sometimes faster than cp, to boot!)
  2. Don't use %ENV. Ever. Not only is it potentially insecure and undependable, it's also implemented differently on different systems.
  3. Don't expect to be able to run against STDIN and STDOUT interactively on Win32. You might have to telnet to yourself to have a terminal window.
If you keep each component really simple, you might be able to get away with very few blocks of 
if ($^O eq 'Win32')
{
}
else
{
}

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In reply to Re: Of Perl Ports and Maintainability by dragonchild
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