Neither of those two methods worked, so I started playing around with IO::Pty. I reason that this is all about tricking scp into thinking it's being invoked from a tty, and I gather that's what a pseudo tty is. The following script executes successfully, but I don't know how to get access to the progress info, if it is indeed going anywhere. Plus, I really don't need/want the thing to exec, since I'd rather that my program waited for the command to return, before proceeding. 

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use IO::Pty;

my $cmd = "scp";
my @args = ("-v", "big.tar",  "egilchri\@other_machine:");

&do_cmd ($cmd, @args);

sub do_cmd {
    my ($cmd,@args) = @_;
    my $pty = IO::Pty->new or die "can't make Pty: $!";
    defined (my $child = fork) or die "Can't fork: $!";
    return $pty if $child;

  POSIX::setsid();
    my $tty = $pty->slave;
    close $pty;

    STDIN->fdopen($tty,"<")      or die "STDIN: $!";
    STDOUT->fdopen($tty,">")     or die "STDOUT: $!";
    STDERR->fdopen(\*STDOUT,">") or die "STDERR: $!";
    close $tty;
    $| = 1;
    exec $cmd,@args;
    die "Couldn't exec: $!";
}

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