On win32, I have a problem with reading from a pipe on STDIN only (files on the command line work as expected). I have to call the script with perl script.pl, as below.

Update: I found this and perldoc pl2bat.

Here's the script: 

print while <>;

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With this command 
echo "one two three" | myscript.pl

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I get no output, but with this 
echo "one two three" | perl myscript.pl

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I get 
"one two three"

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Is this expected behavior? [Oddly enough, using pl2bat DWIM, but I was hoping to avoid that.]

assoc and ftype give...

assoc 

c:\> assoc .pl
.pl=Perl

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ftype 
c:\> ftype Perl
Perl="C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

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-QM
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In reply to pipe to script requires '| perl' on win32 by QM

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