Neat related idea (and you know, I have princepawn to thank for making me think about this in the first place) -- you could also have a batch file (as you explained in the CB, you're worried about porting to win32), that calls perl.exe -T %1 (or however that's done =), call it (say) perlrun.bat, stick it in your PATH, and call the script as perlrun script.pl

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