Can a Perl script be called as a COM object?

One of our possible vendors said that if Perl scripts can be callable COM objects, then we can interface with their engine. Does anyone know whether Perl scripts can be? The languages that they suggest are VB6, C++, and .NET... The Perl.NET project has pretty much been scrapped, correct? Th

RTF to plaintext conversion

Does anyone know of a module or script that can be used to convert a 'fully-editable RTF' file to plaintext? I don't need to edit RTF, but just convert it to an ASCII flat-text file. Also, any examples would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Howard

BEGINning and ENDing

I'm sure this isn't a bug, but rather a feature, but why does a BEGIN get run when one checks the syntax with: perl -c myscript.pl but the END block doesn't. I know that a BEGIN is just like a 'use' statement, but I was just curious why an END doesn't get executed with syntax checking? Is it b

Screen Scraping a DOS window

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Removing the minimize, maximize and 'X' (close) from a DOS window

I'd like to run my Perl scripts in a DOS window without the 3 icons in the upper right corner of the box. Specifically, I'd like to allow our production team users to see the DOS box, but not to be able to close it with the 'X'. Can this be done? Howard T. Maher __

What happens when Perl hits a ctrl-z in a text file?

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