STDIN & STDOUT on Win32 ?

tomazos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I feel a bit silly...

#!perl
# pipetest.pl
use strict; use warnings;

while (<STDIN>) {
    print "$_\n";
}
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Now on a Win32 cmd.exe...

C:/> ./pipetest.pl < somefile

C:/>
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Prompt returns. Nothing happens. There is definately data in somefile. I am clearly missing something very obvious. ?

When I run it without taking stdin from a file:

C:/> ./pipetest.pl
fsanlfga
fsanlfga
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It works fine and echos the lines I type.

Any ideas?

-Andrew.