in reply to doublequoted commands inside backticks on windows, perl 5.6

I cannot reproduce the problem with XP/5.6.1 (AS638)?

my $cmd = "\"c:\\perl\\bin\\perl\" -w -e\" print $] \""; print `$cmd`; 5.006001

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