Bretheren and Cistern,

I have been charged with rewriting a batch file. I discerned that this batch file would serve better as a perl script. I have been trying to get around system("program to call") on Win32.

Can anyone enlighten me on converting these two lines to something more "perl controllable"? In other words, I need to be able to monitor the processes so that if errors occur, I can log them, e-mail them, try again...etc
system("pgp.exe $DECRYPT_WORK_PATH$ENCRYPTED_FILENAME -o $DECRYPT_WORK_PATH$PLAINTEXT_FILENAME"); and system("somescript.pl $DECRYPT_WORK_PATH$PLAINTEXT_FILENAME")

I have tried using WIN32::Process::Create with no luck. I don't want to use WIN32::Console because there is already enough garbage on the screen.

Thanks in advance,
fmogavero

In reply to running perl scripts from other perl scripts. by fmogavero

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