Thanks but that did not work. I built a standalone exe from the following code. Oh and I am doing this on windowz to make it even more fun.

until($cnt == "100"){
print "COUNT IS $cnt\n";
sleep 5;
$cnt++;
}
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I then call the exe within perl. With the code you supplied it still waits until completion before printing. I even tried setting autoflush with the code below.

open SYS, "c:\\temp\\junk.exe |" or die "$!";
$oldfh=select(SYS);
$| = 1;
select($oldfh);
$| = 1;
while (<SYS>) {
print
}
close SYS;
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