oz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can I run an exe file by calling in the perl program in windows? thanks in advance

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Re: windows run exe
by Fletch (Bishop) on May 04, 2004 at 18:26 UTC
    perldoc -f system, perldoc -f exec
Re: windows run exe
by NetWallah (Canon) on May 04, 2004 at 23:10 UTC
    In addition to Fletch's suggestions, lookup the Backtick operator and qx in perldoc perlop.

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