in reply to system perl api fails with exit code 65280 on Win 2003

Please see Maximum Path Length Limitation.

BTW, what happens, if you put zip.exe in your PATH edit: (C:\full\path\to\zip.exe)?

IMHO this should work (my $zipExec='zip.exe';) even if you schedule it. Hope i didn't miss something.

Best regards, Karl

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