Mac perl vs. win perl

I am not intending this to start a war or anything. I just need to take
something i wrote for mac perl and get it to run on a pc...

Perl on a PC is different than mac perl. Not much different, but different
enough to throw me for a few loops.

I am using the File::Copy module in my app to copy a file from one directory
to another directory in the mac app like this:

use strict;
use File::Copy;
#--    make backup copy of original files
    copy(":oldFile.csv",":newFile.csv") || die "Cannot copy 'oldFile.csv':
$!\n";

This does not seem to work on the pc. I changed the colons to slashes to no
avail. Is the File::Copy module a mac perl thing only?

So then I tried:
System ("copy oldFile.csv newFile.csv")
As was recommended  in O'Reilley's "Perl Cookbook".
That does not seem to work for me either.

Here is what I am trying to do. I export a bunch of csv's from a fileMaker
database on a pc. There are a bunch of mac characters that get screwed up in
this export, so I have a perl script that scrubs these. I want to end up
with the same file names for the scrubbed files as I started with from the
FileMaker exports.

So my thinking is to make a copy of the file, open the copy for reading,
scrub the characters, save to oldFileName.

Any ideas? Thx.

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