Now for something completely different

[Ben Webb]

And now for a quick, meaningless reply

>Thanks for all the help.  Now that I know the why behind
>the ./ I have decided that I can live with putting ./ in front
>of my perl scripts when I run them.  Eventually I will probably
>be swearing at DOS for not running executables when I start
>them with ./.

As long as you use . it WILL work in dos, and is a good idea if you happen to be running setup.exe 
(because there are so many of them).