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works for me. 
D:\TEMP>touch temp.file

D:\TEMP>dir temp*
 Volume in drive D is APPS&DATA
 Volume Serial Number is 70E2-28A6

 Directory of D:\TEMP

10/17/02  01:27p                     0 temp.file
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
                            425,926,656 bytes free

D:\TEMP>perl -e "unlink('temp.file') or warn"

D:\TEMP>dir temp*
 Volume in drive D is APPS&DATA
 Volume Serial Number is 70E2-28A6

 Directory of D:\TEMP

File Not Found

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