Hello, I don't mean to sound frustrated, but as always I'm having a tough time making things work correctly with windows, Ok enough complaining, this is my problem. I have several X10 components, and I just wish (at this point to simply turn them on and off) I have added the path to the executable (x10com32.exe) to my system path environment varible so I can call the command from anywhere. Here is my code 
#!perl.exe -wT

use Strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header("text/html");

print"<h2>Turning Lights ON</H2>";

my $command   = join ("", "x10comm.exe ", "a2 ",  "on");
system($command);

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The command works fine from the cmd window, but will NOT work when I call it from my browser.....AARRRRGGGHHH!!!! Any suggestions, or I have I been staring blindly at this VERY SIMPLE code, and have overlooked something. I'm using the latest version of apache for Windows XP, and the cgi perl module. Thanks

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