Thanks so much. I thought I was going NUTS!

In correction to my original post (since updated) it does work with callperl.exe but originally it was 

!#/c/apps/pp3.exe

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and that didn't work , which added to my confusion(I should have noticed this when posting). Seeing this, I then actually started adding and deleting letters from the shebang line and got what seemed to be random results.
!#/c/apps/callperl.exe

and

!#/c/apps/callperllllll.exe

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worked but 
!#/c/apps/callpe.exe

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failed

I didn't happen to think that it might be to do with the word perl

Thanks again for the quick response, You get good service here!!!

This is the second time I have come across mysterious (yes, should have read the docs) perl (related - though not perls fault) problems on windows. At first callperl.exe kept stealing spaces from my command line arguments until I realised that you need to double quote all command line parameters containing spaces. This is important for system and exec in c which call CreateProcess on windows platforms.

Matt

In reply to Re^2: Perl thinks it's the shell! by misterw
in thread Perl thinks it's the shell! by misterw

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