On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:28 -0700, Travis Thornhill wrote: 
> Does anyone have any idea why setting $ENV{"PATH"} = "" would cause
>   the open() function to fail? The file I'm trying to open exists, and some 
> debug
>   printing shows that I'm in the directory where it exists.

If that is literal then it may be a lazy loading of run time libraries
cannot find the path it needs.

The only way I have seen this used is:

$ENV{"PATH"} += ":/my/new/path";
$ENV{"PATH"} += ";c:\\my\\new\\path";  # I am guessing for dos...


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