Wow, thanks very much for this reply! Much to chew on.
First, I ran Perl2Exe on my code, and then fired up Wordpad to look at the file. Happily, I didn't see anything that looked like Perl source code. And, when I searched for the one text string that I want to protect, I didn't find it. So, while this is probably not encrypted in the classic sense, it seems sufficiently obscured that it meets my need.
I like your idea of writing a 'glue' script that would provide a CLI interface. I can see how to pass paramters into this (just by putting them on the command line following the name of the glue script .exe file). But how can I receive multiple return values back (or can I)?
Thanks
tl
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