Re^2: Start an MS window in background from a perl script

Thanks everyone for your posts. The suggestion of using 'system(1, "...command...");" worked. THANKS.

Interestingly, before I even tried to use "system", I thought there might be more than one parameter I could pass to it, but I couldn't find documentation on it, so please let me ask a couple of questions about Perl documentation.

I tried "perldoc system", but it said there was no documentation on "system". Where/how could I find the syntax for "system", and a brief synopis?

Also, how can I list all of the functions contained in a Perl module, and how do I find a synopsis and syntax of a specific function within a module? (For example, "perldoc Win32::TestGui" gives me some information, but not all of what I would need to effectively use that module).

Thanks, again.

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Re^3: Start an MS window in background from a perl script by pKai (Priest) on Sep 19, 2007 at 20:49 UTC
To get information on functions from perldoc you use the `-f` switch. So it's `perldoc -f system`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Start an MS window in background from a perl script by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 19, 2007 at 17:42 UTC
OS-specific differences are documented in perlport. Your last paragraph is really unrelated. Why don't you start a new SoPW thread?	[reply]