The easiest and slickest way to do this is to use perl2exe with the -gui option. To get this feature you have to pay for the Pro Edition, but it's not expensive. Plus you get the additional benefit of cramming your whole app into one exe that can run on another computer with no external dlls, no libraries -- no nuthin' else. It's all embedded in the exe. And that means no install program. Just unzip and go. (A fairly large app, when zipped, will fit on a 1.44MB floppy.)

Sorry if this sounds like an ad, but I use the program and like it a lot.

In reply to Re: Hiding the DOS window on Win32 by Dr. Mu
in thread Hiding the DOS window on Win32 by the_slycer

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