well, of course you're right. The thing is, that I'm a trainee and I'm only working in this department of my company for 5 weeks...tomorrow will be the last day ;-)
At the beginning, I was told, that I should rewrite a korn shell script into something for Windows. I always wanted to learn Perl, so I thought, this might be a good chance.
From time to time, the professionals here asked me, if i could implement this and that in my script and I was glad of having chosen Perl, but meanwhile there is so much, my script shall do, that I also think it would have been better to edit the application.exe, but it's written in C++.
For this afternoon, I think I'll give the process creation with Win32::Process another try, but if it doesn't work, I don't mind too much. My script is starting application.exe very well, handles logfiles, links some server shares and monitors them...there's really only the problem with shutting it all down left.