how to open another cmd

koti688 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i am running perl on windows using cmd prompt.
when i executed a perl script which runs a batch file too , the batchfile is running there itself. is there any way to run that batch file in another Cmd prompt (ie.. opening another cmd prompt or something ?).

Please Help

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Re: how to open another cmd by Anonymous Monk on May 19, 2009 at 07:24 UTC
At your prompt, type `dir %windir%\system32\cmd.exe help cmd call %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /?` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: how to open another cmd by binf-jw (Monk) on May 19, 2009 at 09:23 UTC
`$> START cmd` [download] will open another winodw for the new command prompt J,	[reply] [d/l]

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