Well, my first thought would be that, since they're part of the PAR package, its looking for them as within the filesystem rather than within the PAR. Not sure how to remedy that directly...

As a possible workaround, you could embed the contents of the text files into a module and include it in the PAR. For example, using heredocs: 

package IncludedTextFiles;

# declare as part of the module namespace
our @text;

# include file contents inside heredocs...
$text[1] = <<'END_OF_FILE';
contents of the first text file...
END_OF_FILE

$text[2] = <<'END_OF_FILE';
contents of the second text file...
END_OF_FILE;

$text[3] = <<'END_OF_FILE';
contents of the third text file...
END_OF_FILE;

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Then you could just use the supplemental module and access the files by their variable, rather than opening and reading them: 
use IncludedTextFiles;
print "First text file was ", length($text[1]), "bytes!";

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It's not the most elegant solution, and perhaps the wiser monks would have a better suggestion...but it should work.

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In reply to Re: PAR/pp help by EvanK
in thread PAR/pp help by tristateguy

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