Hi,

>  The strange thing is that it won't work even if I put it in a batch
>  file and call the batch file from perl.  I have tried changing the
>  options used with xcopy also.  It seems that the xcopy call is just
>  ignored by the system when the parent process is a PerlApp compiled
>  script.
>  

my suggestion would be that you need to call xcopy with its path.
The shell that gets opened does NOT need to have the same 
environment. 
So put a $ENV{'SYSTEMROOT'}."\\SYSTEM32\\" in front of xcopy...

Hope it helps,
  Axel
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