in reply to external applications - system?

Look up use Win32::Process ; at ActiveState. This should do what you need.

"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!

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Re: external applications on Win32 - Win32::Process
by Reverend Phil (Pilgrim) on Feb 19, 2002 at 15:29 UTC
    looks like the way to go =) thanks a ton.
      I am trying to do something very similar to what you describe, and read this thread with great interest, then chased off to investigate Win32::Process... Only to have Komodo show a compile error any time I added "use Win32::Process;" to a script. That's right, before I even place a call to it, just the invocation is sufficient. perl -cw script.pl will say all is OK, so it looks like a bug in Komodo. I am just looking to see if anyone else has seen this happen? As a novice, I trust Komodo's warnings (maybe more than I should), and wanted to see if anyone else had encountered this.
      Michael Gucciard
      Novice Perl Programmer