Hey Monks, Originally I created a script that would execute multiple commands based on a scheduled time and to execute each command I used the line: 
system("start $separate_command") and die $!,$?,$^E;

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Using the system function, it would open up a new cmd window when executing each command. This way I could execute more than one command simultaneously. (Previously, it was using the cmd window that I was executing the script in to run each command, but this posed a problem, because after a command was executed, if it took 30 seconds, it skipped other scheduled commands that were scheduled within 30 seconds of the first command). Anyways, I currently am messing around with the Telnet module so I can execute commands on remote hosts, and my current code for executing a command with Telnet is this: 
            use Net::Telnet();
            $commandExecution = new Net::Telnet(Host=>$location,      
+                                   Dump_Log=>"debug.txt",            
+                        Prompt=>'/C:\\\\>.*$/');

$commandExecution->login($username,$password);
$commandExecution->print($separate_command);
$commandExecution->waitfor('/.+$/');
$commandExecution->close;

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The above code runs telnet in the window the script is running. My question: Is there a way to have it run the telnet commands above, in a separate window, like it was doing when I was using the system() function?

Hope I was clear enough.

Thanks for your assistance.


Edge118 (Perl Noob)

In reply to Using Net::Telnet Module on Windows machine by Edge118

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