I'm running Perl on Win32 and have come across a strange problem. I know I'll probably get some replies saying to use some module instead of the method I am using but please help me figure out why this approach is failing.

I am trying to copy a file to another file and am using the 'system' function. This is the code: print "system returned ", system("copy", "\"$original_file\"", "\"$backup_file\""), "\n";

Now the weird thing is that this works on everyone's machine except for one person. He is running the same OS(win2K) but for some reason the copy is failing. The output he gets is this:

system returned 65280

I'm not sure if that return value is helpful at all and am not sure how else to really go about debugging this. Any help?

Thanks.

In reply to Win32: Weird file copy failure using system by richz

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