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Re: Perl calling command prompt?
by l.frankline (Hermit) on Nov 27, 2006 at 08:07 UTC

    hi

    If my guess is right then ...it is the solution...

    You have to use "command" if your Windows OS is below 2000 like...

    system ("command");

    else if your Windows OS is greater or equal to Windows OS 2000 then use "cmd"

    system ("cmd");

    bye

    Don't put off till tomorrow, what you can do today.

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      Windows provides $ENV{COMSPEC} to denote the shell, much like unixish OSes have $ENV{SHELL}, so a better way on Windows is to launch $ENV{COMSPEC}:

      system($ENV{COMSPEC}) == 0
    or warn "Error launching '$ENV{COMSPEC}': $! / $?'";

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