If you run a program on your hard disk (say C:) to access a CD rom (say E:) I fail to see how you can use a relative path as you need to specify the E: - there simply is no relative path from C: to E: This being the case I suggest your exe perhaps has a hard coded CD rom drive letter in it (given it works from the HDD). You almost certainly have a path issue.

A script can work out where it is (ie if on the CD rom what the drive letter is) by using Cwd. This should help fix your problem. 

use Cwd;
my $cwd = cwd();
my ($cdrom_drive_letter) = $cwd =~ m/^(\w:)/;

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tachyon

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In reply to Re: Search function not working from CD Rom by tachyon
in thread Search function not working from CD Rom by Gerard

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