in reply to Failure of catfile on Windows 7
In Windows, \\foo\go\do would generally be seen as a UNC path, where foo is the server name. Is foo a server name? Or is it a directory at root level?
Also, have you tried File::Spec::Win32::canonpath and File::Spec::Win32::catpath?
--marmot
In Section
Seekers of Perl Wisdom