Hi,
We use Visual Source Safe (in windows )as a configuration management tool apart from pvcs in Unix.
I have a perl script which generates reports based on many criterias ( eg. label name ) by reading the history details from VSS command line tools.
Before proceeding with the perl script, it is required to set up some environment variables in order to run the VSS Commands. So I have a DOS batch script which inturn calls the perl script which runs after setting the environment variable.

Well, that being said, these scripts have been running very well from the command line.
A new requirement is that to put all these functionality in a web-page. After I get the values from the user say database and labelname, I pass it to the batch using the system command in the cgi script.

The problem I face here is the batch file does not run as it does in the command line, and moreover, it does not take the values I pass from the html.
Here's the batch command. 
REM %1 - is the Database path.
REM %2 - Label name

REM Setting the VSS Database to the path where the srcsafe.ini file is
+ located.
set SSDIR=%1
vssreport.pl %1 %2

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In reply to CGI - Batch command by Anonymous Monk

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