I am logged on as an admin in my system and I want to use the lpr command to transfer an ascii file over to an as400 system.The reason being only then can the as400 understand the file format. 
#!usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $cmd=qw(lpr -S SYSTEMX -P QGPL/SPYVIEW -o l C:\\ABCDEFGH.txt);
system($cmd) or die "cannot do this";

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This is what happens: It repeats this message 7 times:"Usless Use of a constant in void context at move_files.pl line 3" and it opens the text file.Then when I close the file,it says "cannot do this at move_files.pl line 4"

Could anybody tell me where I am wrong please.It works fine when i just use the lpr command from my command prompt.I use activestate perl and am on a windows machine. Thanks

-Sandhya

UPDATE: It now does not show up with the message 7 times.But other than that it says cannot do this.

In reply to lpr command from perl not working. by smanicka

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