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cseelig,

"BTW - it's an intranet application; security is not a concern."

Yikes! IMHO security should always be a concern.
Check out CGI Programming FAQ under Security for some interesting reading.
Update: Also merlyn has a great article on the subject of security which I would advise reading.

Martin
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Re^6: backtick in perl 5.8 cgi under iis 6
by cseelig (Initiate) on Feb 17, 2006 at 19:43 UTC
    Ok. So how would you do it?
    (Where "it" is to have a Perl cgi script invoke an external executable and capture the results for subsequent processing.)
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