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.
The association for the parent script is done by the web server, not the command interpreter, so that's not relevant.

If you can run t.pl at the command prompt by just typing "t.pl", then your associations are okay. It could be that the user that that web server is running under has read-access to "t.pl" but not execute access.

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

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