I am having great difficulty with trying to run a win32 exe from perl. on the cmd line it would be:
xx.exe word_up
If I try
open(HECK,">xx.exe");
print HECK "word_up";

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xx.exe is overwritten with 'word_up'

if I try
open(HECK,"| xx.exe");

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I get a crazy win16 bit error, but open(HECK,"| grep up");
works, but that doesn't help me. (grep.exe)
so then I tried -> 
use win32;
win32::spawn ( "xx.exe", "xx word_up", $Pid );

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nothing
Help me out here, please. I am losing.

Thanks

In reply to win32 pipe help by perlmonkee

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