Well, that's not a very perl way to do it. It's probably the solution I'm going to use though. Had I know that option existed, I would not have asked the question. I thought I had looked everywhere for such a switch, where on earth did you find it?

update: -interaction=nonstopmode ... is cool, but I have basically the same problems! I don't understand why I'm having so much trouble just cuz I'm calling this from a CGI. I even did a 'su - nobody' and executed the commands as they appear in the CGI (everything was keen when I typed it by hand) :{.

another update: This problem is solved. I did use -interactive=nonstopmode, but get this: 

    while(<T>) {
        if(m/[{]ONF ([^}]+)[}]/) {
            my $v  = $1;
            my $sv = shift @ONFs;
            push @ONFs, $v if $sv =~ /ding/;
            s/ONF/$sv/;
        }
        s/NAME/$fields{name}/;
        print U "$_";
    }
    #close T, U;  # wasn't closing U in time!
    close T;
    close U;            

    `(
       cd $dir; [ -f $tname.tex ] && latex --interaction=nonstopmode $
+tname.tex 2>/dev/null
                [ -f $tname.dvi ] && dvips -f $tname.dvi
                [ -f $tname.ps  ] && lpr $tname.ps
    )`

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When I tried to close both T and U at the same time, the tex file wasn't fully written by the time I got to the shell fork. wtf?

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