in reply to Problem with STDIN input

It must be an artefact of your OS or shell. On my Windows XP Pro box I run the following program:
$test = <STDIN>;
print length $test;

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and it accepts a maximum of 4095 characters (actually 4094 plus the EOL) at a time. I'm running ActiveState Perl 5.8.8.

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