Are there any environment variables that might need tweaking? Or anything to put in the script file?

How about you provide a little more information:

  1. What version of perl are you using?

    perl -v

  2. What version of "DOS" are you using? ver
  3. What file associations do you have? assoc .pl

    The above produce output like: .pl=xxxx. Substitute whatever you get instead of 'xxxx' into the following command: ftype xxxx

  4. The output from the following two commands: 
    set pat
set per

    [download]
  5. Your full runnable code.

    Or if it is huge or proprietary; a complete, self-contained, runnable script that demonstrates the problem.

  6. A cut&paste of the console log showing the posted code being run on your system.

If you supply that information, we here will almost certainly be able to solve your problem. Without it, all we can do is guess, usually wrongly.

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The start of some sanity?

In reply to Re^3: How Do I Get Batch Input to Work in DOS? by BrowserUk
in thread How Do I Get Batch Input to Work in DOS? by jmk2012

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