in reply to Perl calling command prompt?

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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Re^2: Perl calling command prompt?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 27, 2006 at 08:14 UTC

    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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