Are you on Windows or NT? If you are on NT then you are in luck. Just right-click at the bar across the top of the DOS window, select edit, then mark. Mark with your mouse and hit return. Alternately hold alt, hit space, and then hot-key through the same motions. (You can do the same to paste.)

One either you can redirect the output to a file (either by opening a filehandle or with > at the command prompt) and then open in notepad. If you want you can even launch notepad from Perl with a system command.

And another neat trick, there is a module called Win32::Clipboard that you can use. Have Perl collect all of the output in a single string, and then paste that to the clipboard, from which you can paste anywhere you want.

I may not be the biggest fan of Windows in the world, but I have learned a few tricks and there is no need to be any more miserable while using it than necessary... :-)