I am trying to add an additional txt file to a PAR archive using the -a flag. The resulting .exe file works as long as it's not moved to another folder. If moved and executed the .txt file is not found. Here is a simple file example.pl: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

open FH,"data.txt" or die " can't open file $!\n";
while ( <FH> ) { print $_; }

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The data.txt file contains a few lines of anything. The command to generate the example.exe file is: 
 
command prompt>pp -a "data.txt" -o example.exe example.pl

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OS is windowsXP and perl version is 5.8.8 820 Activestate. I have tried different ways of entering the filename after the -a flag; -a "data.txt;/script/data.txt", etc but none seem to work. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks

In reply to pp -a is not working by alw

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