ok...the example was only contrived...as the actual utilities involved are developed by our company. the utilities are NOT the culprit. Most of our database based utilities will print all rows of a table if run without passing (via STDIN) a value to limit selection. So for (real) example 
$retval=`seluser`;

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runs in a cgi via IIS no problems...retrieving all user id's into the scalar. However: 
$retval=`echo 123 | seluser`;

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will work from command line (or even with apache), returning user id for that user only. It works on IIS 5, but not with IIS 6. I've been playing around with all our and MS utilities to see what's the deal....and have come up with the most likely scenario being that pipes don't work from a script in IIS 6. Sorry about the contrived example before with `help | more` as i am trying to make sure i don't violate company law.

In reply to Re^2: IIS 6 and perl 5.8 pipes by aquarium
in thread IIS 6 and perl 5.8 pipes by aquarium

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