This can't be as difficult as I'm making it out to be. I'm trying to write a wrapper around 'aspell -c', which takes a filename, opens the file interactively in the console to be spell checked, and saves the changes back to the file. What I want to do is, in short:

• Slurp all of the STDIN, write it to a temp file
• Run that temp file through an aspell session, for which locally STDIN/STDOUT are the keyboard and a console window respectively
• Wait until aspell terminates
• Write the revised temp file back out STDOUT.

And here's what I've been trying.

# Create a temporary file to hold the input.
my ($fh, $filename) = tempfile();

# And stream everything into it.
my $linecount = 0;
while (<>)    {
    $fh->print($_);
    $linecount++;
}

print STDERR "Wrote $linecount lines to $filename.\n";

# Now pass the input off to aspell for processing
my $obj;
my $appname = "C:\\Program Files\\Aspell\\bin\\aspell.exe";
my $cmdline = "--check $filename";
my $iflags = 0;
my $cflags = NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS + CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE;
my $curdir = ".";

Win32::Process::Create(    $obj,
                        $appname,
                        $cmdline,
                        $iflags,
                        $cflags,
                        $curdir)
                        or die "Couldn't shell to aspell.\n";

$obj->Wait(INFINITE);

# Return the tempfile on standard output
seek($fh, 0, 0);
while (<$fh>) {
    print
}
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Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?

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