Nope. We are dealing with two files here. First the parent perl file, say, x.pl and another perl file, say, t.pl, invoked from x.pl via 'system' call.

1) The browser is able to resolve the association of the parent perl file, ie, x.pl, to use the correct Perl interpreter, whereas not the one in the system within it, t.pl. I mean, system ("full_path/t.pl") would not work.

2) The parent x.pl has t.pl in its PATH (I tried printing the PATH variable in the html reponse), but still, something like 'system ("t.pl")' in x.pl will not work (only on XP) and I had to use the full path with the perl interperter in full-path in front it in the system call.

-sureshr

In reply to Re: Re: 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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