I asked this question earlier, but I'm afraid I wasn't clear enough. I'll try and rephrase the question. I got 2 very good replys but niether really addressed the problem.

Inside of a IIS5 cgi application I run a system call

system($prg);

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This app has been moved to IIS6 and the above call fails silently (also with backtics). In a futile attempt to gain some insight as to is going on, I changed the system to an open
open (POO, "logfile") or die "Can't open logfile: $!";
my $PRG = "someprg.bat |";
print POO $PRG;
open (HUH, $PRG) or die "Can't run someprg.bat: $!";
while (<HUH>) {
    print POO $_;
}

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When run I die and get "Bad file discriptor" in $! on the open statment. This works in IIS5 and Apache, not IIS6. I'm not a windows user and I'm not really sure where to go next. I'm not sure what to make of the 'bad file discriptor' message, and was wondering what was wrong with my use of open, or if any one knew why IIS6 has decided to change the rules? (and what those new rules might be)

PS using XML::ApacheFOP was suggested but I have no control over the server, and was hoping for something I could do remotly.

In reply to open under windows IIS6 by Anonymous Monk

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