Someone is trying to convince me of the usefulness of a Win32 module that can "pause" or keep the DOS window open when a perl script is double-clicked. Normally, under Windows, when a script is double-clicked the DOS window will open and close quickly, so that anything sent to STDOUT or STDERR will not be seen (or simply flash across the screen too quickly). So this person has created a module that detects (using env variables) if the script was double-clicked and then keeps the window open until the user presses a key.

So bascially, you are looking at something like this: 

print "hello\n";

print "monk\n";

pause();

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My problem with this module is as follows:
- If someone wants to see any output they should execute the script at the command-line.
- There are much better ways of keeping the window open, such as this.
- You could also use sleep or send the output to another application, if it is that important.

Anyway, I just wanted to get more opinions about such a module.

In reply to Pausing Win32 scripts by jacques

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