in reply to ActivePerl - perl.exe works, wperl.exe does not...
Add this at the top of your program
BEGIN { use Win32 qw(SW_HIDE); Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SW_HIDE); my $perl = $^X; if( $perl =~ s/wperl.exe/perl.exe/i ){ system(1, $perl, $0, @ARGV ); exit; } }
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