Dear Monks,

I tried many things and I'm still stuck on a stupid problem with Window.

I have a script running under wperl as I don't need any console window for my script, all its IO being handled by pipes.

But I need to be able to call a cmd command to display a PDF file in the default viewer (ie explore).

So I tried issuing the simple command :

qx{start "$pdf" /b };

and whatever I do (even using the /b option), it begins first by opening a console window before running the explorer.

Do you think of a way to get rid of this silly unexpected console ?

(Or any other way to display the PDF file...)

Thanks for any advise,

F.

In reply to Win32 wperl open Console when system by fdesar

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