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in reply to Re^4: -e on windows giving error
in thread -e on windows giving error

Demonstrating that the Windows association mechanism uses absolute paths does not contradict what I said. 

>type a.pl
print "$0\n"

>perl a.pl
a.pl

>perl .\.\.\.\.\A.pL
.\.\.\.\.\A.pL

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