I've written a PERL script that prompts the user for some information and then does it's thing. If I'm on the remote system via MS remote desktop, the script works fine. If I access the remote system using 'psexec' from System Internals, it doesn't. It's results are somewhat predictable. If I invoke the 'psexec' without the -i parm (the interactive flag), the system doesn't ask for any input. If I use the -i parm, it waits for the input and then displays the prompt. I've boiled my test program to a very short example below: 
#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $commit;
print "***********************\n";
$commit = <>;
print "***********************\n";

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In running the above example without the -i I get two rows of stars, with the -i it waits for a response and then gives two rows of stars. It's almost like I need a way to tell PERL to flush the STDOUT buffers before quering on STDIN, I think this is possible but don't know how.

I invoke the connection as "psexec \\{host} cmd" to get a command shell to run the programs. I'm running AS 5.8.3-811 under 2003 server std ed. I appreciate your meditations...

In reply to psexec and PERL by zachzippo

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