As I mentioned previously, for some reason the '.pl' association is not getting inherited by the 'system call'. So, I had to resort to using the full perl interpreter path and the full command path, which works.

Looking from a broader perspective, this is more of behavioural problem pertaining to XP alone (it works fine on Win2K). The script, without any modifications, works from the command line. I have to investigate further on why it was not working (the failure to inherit certain properties of the parent script -- it should be noted here that the parent script by itself is a .pl script and the correct association is picked for it), if I invoked it via an HTTP request through the web-browser.

Thanks a lot to all of you, for the solutions.
-sureshr

In reply to Re: Re: system call in an CGI perl script, fails on Windows XP by sureshr
in thread system call in an CGI perl script, fails on Windows XP by sureshr

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