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in thread Win32::API Memory Exception with GetCommandLine() (which returns a static string)

Thanks for the comments and investigation.

The ".bat" wrapper is used because XP/NT (and possibly still Vista) don't always redirect STDIO/STDOUT correctly for scripts executed through file associations (see http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/5.8/faq/Windows/ActivePerl-Winfaq5.html#STDIN_and_STDOUT_and_Piping_don and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321788).

I used the "pack" because the example in Win32::API did so and I thought it might be there to fix the memory violations.

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Re^5: Win32::API Memory Exception with GetCommandLine() (which returns a static string)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 07, 2007 at 18:38 UTC

    I understand the purpose of bat-wrapping (sounds like something they'd do on the Lower East Side :), but for the purposes of demonstration it seemed excessive. Of course, I now know that the problem only occured when the script, presumably reduced from the original be the problem manifest itself, is so bat-wrapped.

    For the pack, I'd never notice that example before. Maybe it was necessary in early versions, and the example just never got updated.

    Anyway, asked and answered. Thanks.

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