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in reply to .bat and perl mystery

I'm not quite sure what your problem is here. On my windows 2000 system using the following works as expected: system("myfile.bat"); Maybe if you posted the code you are using it might shed some light on the matter?

~~rob
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eval pack "h*", "072796e647022245d445f475454494c5e622b3";