Re: correct way to use pp -a

Not a solution, but a workaround is to place the content of hello.txt in the code of the script

#!/usr/bin/perl
# OS is windows XP perl 5.8.8 build 820 

#open FH,"hello.txt" or die "$!\n";
while ( <DATA> ) {
    print;
}
__DATA__
one
two
three
four
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