in reply to Re^2: more problems running a program that hogs the termnial
in thread more problems running a program that hogs the termnial

'k. Sorry for the bum steer. Strange though, if you can terminate the same program with ^C?

You probably need to look at IPC::Open2 or maybe the Expect program?

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