pryrt wrote:

[...] or you can temporarily set the PATH to include the appropriate bin-directories (as seen in portableshell.bat); or if you're launching from another application, it could change the **env argument to add those variables;

Hi pryrt, I wasn't sure if you realized it but portableshell.bat can be used to launch Perl scripts from other applications. You can call it in place of perl.exe to run your script without actually opening a shell. All of the command line parameters are passed through portableshell.bat to perl.exe. If you don't provide any parameters then it just opens the shell. I have used this frequently from the Windows Task Scheduler as well as from other programs where I need to launch Perl scripts.