almut, I think you've hit the nail. I ran this manually from the CLI and then did echo %ERRORLEVEL% and the value returned was -1. Is this the proper way to check this? I wonder if you could remind me, in windows what would be the "normal" return code, 0 or 1?

That's a very strange error message to return in the event of a negative return code. Not just meaningless but confusing as well. Is the reason why it is seen when run from perl but not when run directly in the CLI because cmd doesn't pass warnings, but perl does? Thanks !!

In reply to Re^2: Can't spawn "cmd.exe": by emalossi
in thread Can't spawn "cmd.exe": by emalossi

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