Re: system("start $command") in Win32

You can write:

system(1, "calc.exe")
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Note that is will only work on Windows and is totally unportable to other operating systems -- on most other systems you want to do a fork followed by exec.

-- David Irving

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Re^2: system("start $command") in Win32 by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2008 at 21:18 UTC
I doubt, but don't know for sure, if that works for cygwin builds of Perl. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]

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Re^2: system("start $command") in Win32
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2008 at 21:18 UTC

I doubt, but don't know for sure, if that works for cygwin builds of Perl.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

"Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."

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