in reply to Backticks with no cmd window from perltray

See this article from Jenda, specifically the advice under the heading Subprocesses, which basically says add: 

BEGIN {
    Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0)
        if defined &Win32::SetChildShowWindow
};

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to your GUI scripts, to cause child processes to be created with a hidden console.

After that, using backticks to run netstat works fine.

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Re^2: Backticks with no cmd window from perltray
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 11, 2005 at 15:08 UTC
    Thanks everyone for your help!
    I checked the monitors available with the PerfMon library, but I'm looking for total bytes transferred, rather than bytes/second.
    The advice from the Jenda article, however, was exactly what I needed. Everything works perfectly now.
    Thank you!
    -- John
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