Ok fine monks, let's see what I am doing wrong. I want to create a process, return any error messages then decide what to do next if I do not receive an error message.

I can initiate the process. However I am not sure how to do the following:
-waiting for the process to complete, then
-killing the process should it start to error

I was using system(), but Win32::Process seems to be a better way to go. But again, the application/process I am running creates a program error on certain files, waiting for an ok/cancel... if I see this I want to close it down... but first I must have the script to wait until the process is done, then get information on whether the process was successful

Does that sound clear?

Please advise kind Monks.

In reply to Win32::Process handling by sdyates

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