Greetings Pdk,

I have had little trouble running exes made with PerlApp on Vista with one exception. Of cou
rse, this is the app that I bought the Vista machine specifically to run so I am motivated t
o get it working. It works fine when run from Komodo or from the perl interpreter. As an exe
. the command window shows briefly and then disappears before I can see any error messages. 

The problem has something to do with the Archive::Extract module. The following test works f
ine if Archive::Extract is commented out and the exe made from that script. Including use Ar
chive::Extract causes the exe to not work although it works fine as a .pl run from the inter
preter or Komodo.

I pity anyone who has to deal with Vista. What a pile of crap. I have spent over a week gett
ing things to just sort of work the way they did with XP.

use strict;

use lib 'File';
use File::Copy;
#use Archive::Extract;
use Time::localtime;

print "\n\nHit enter to close program\n";
my $input = <STDIN> ;
exit;

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