Hello,
I've written some of this stuff in earlier posts, but it's required here too.

I have been trying to create an exe file of a Perl script and am using PerlApp which comes with ActiveState's PDK 5.0.
I'm using PerlApp to pack a .pl file along with text files and .pm's 
perlapp myscript.pl --add mypm.pm --bind mytextfile.txt[text,extract,f
+ile=c:\test,mode=0777]

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Once we run the .exe file,the text files packed with the .exe get extracted in the c:\windows\temp folder in this way:
c:\windows\temp\pdk-username-856877
the process id gets appended to the folder name.
Suppose I use stmts like this to open mytextfile.txt in myscript.pl 
       
open TF,'>mytextfile.txt' or die $!;

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My .pl script can't find the text file. I keep getting this error: 
Tk::Error: No such file or directory at test.pl line 183.[\&main::chfi
+le]

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According to the PerlApp docs, if we use the 'extract' option with --bind:
The bound file is extracted into the TEMP directory upon application s
+tart. It will be deleted when the application terminates. The extract
+ion directory will be added to the PATH environment variable (as well
+ as to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable on Unix). It will also be added t
+o the front of @INC.

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But the temp. folder in which the text files are extracted is not getting added to the PATH environment variable.
I tried adding it to PATH , while not quitting the application,but that also didn't work.What is the problem here? Please help!Thanks in advance.
:)

2006-01-19 Retitled by Arunbear, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'PerlApp'

In reply to Writing to a packaged file with PerlApp by perl_seeker

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