Re: Piped input read by Windows Vista but not by Windows XP

[Anonymous Monk]

That is an old cmd.exe limitation, maybe cmd powershell is different? Anyway, use pl2bat because apparently cmd.exe will only pipe to programs/batch files, it considers everything else just files

?node_id=3989;HIT=win%20pipe;re=N pipe to script requires '| perl' on win32

[roho]

Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense now. Too bad M$ never got around to fixing this in XP.

[tye]

It has been fixed in most cases for a long time. See Re: Out of date over <> and 5.10 (redir) for more about it. Still, nobody has been able to demonstrate what causes only some instances to exhibit this problem.