I was writing simple test program to illustrate another issue I'm having, when I noticed some odd behavior (which is very likely related to the issue I'm having). If I run the following script on Windows, it works as expected:

#!perl -w

system("dir") == 0 or die "system failed: $?";
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If I try to pipe the output to a file, however, I get an error:

C:\>test.pl > test.out
There is not enough space on the disk.
system failed: 65280 at C:\test.pl line 3.
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(Yes, I have plenty of disk space available.)

If, however, I do "perl test.pl > test.out", it works fine.

I know there are other ways to do this, but I'm curious as to why this happens on Windows. I've searched high and low and haven't found anything so far.

Cheers,