in reply to Perl Warning Help

That's not a Perl warning message. It must be generated by some external program that you are calling from one of those functions.

Googling for the phrase "Parameter format not correct" returns a number of hits and glancing at the first few would seem to indicate that it's a Windows error message of some sort.

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