in reply to 'system' not working!

Don't know if this is just a copy-and-paste artifact, but it looks like you're missing one backslash: my $VSS= '"D:\Program ... should be my $VSS= '"D:\\Program ...

HTH

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Re: Re: 'system' not working!
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Oct 24, 2001 at 23:59 UTC
    'A\B' and 'A\\B' mean the same thing. Only \' and \\ have special meanings in a single-quoted string; other single backslashes are unchanged and non-special.