Coincidentally, I asked from the wisdom of the monks on a little sub I wrote on this node. My problem was that the script was working and I didn't thing it should have.

It works fine on everything I tested (Linux, NT, 95, 98 and BeOS). Just remember that on Win machines you have to indicate what HD you're running off of, ie:

my $dir = 'd:/temp';
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or else it will run from the place you called it...

HTH...

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!