in reply to How to support Windows compatibility
Whilst not wanting, in any way to tread on toes, I would suggest that, if you intend to develop &/or on Windoze, you get copies of Win32 Perl Scripting &/or Win32 Perl Programming Standard Extensions - they worked wonders for me whilst I was encumbered with M$.
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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