I'm having problems returning from a batch file called by the system command. The batch file completes but never returns to the calling perl script. What am I missing here? Here's a snippet of my code:

newbug.bat:

@echo off
echo this is some message
echo another message
echo yet another message
goto fini

:fini
echo "Exiting..."
exit /b

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fascanner.pl:

...
$Jira_command_line="newbug $Jira_bug_category $Jira_bug_number trunk $
+TRUNK $sernum";
print "Calling '$Jira_command_line'\n";
#$i = system("$Jira_command_line");  ### original line but doesn't wor
+k
$i = system("cmd /c $Jira_command_line");  ### this also doesn't work
print "\n********** Initial FA of $sernum complete! **********\n";

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I noticed that "Exiting..." is displayed so it should be exiting, but somewhere hangs between leaving the batch file and returning to my perl script. Any ideas why? Thanks for your help.

I'm running ActivePerl 5.12 on Win XP and I've also tried ActivePerl 5.14, but still have the same issue.

In reply to Not returning from batch file by alexanderp98

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