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in reply to running a perl script via Shell() in MS-Access

It's probably running the program just fine. I set up a test Access DB, and experienced the same thing you did. You might want to add something like:
print "Press Any Key To Continue...\n"; $input = <STDIN>;

To the end of your code.
HTH,
Chris