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in thread Using SYSTEM2 on Windows

Sorry for the delay. Our solution was to just rip it out entirely instead of fighting with it. I've needed a solution like this for other applications, so I took a look at the code you suggested. IPC::Run3 does seem to work, but I couldn't figure out how to connect to it. There are no examples at all and no one seems to use it. I tried setting up pipes for it, but nothing is returned when I do that: 
use IPC::Run3;
use IO::Pipe;

my $cmd = "cmd /D/C dir";

my $out = new IO::Pipe;    $out->reader();
my $err = new IO::Pipe;    $err->reader();

run3 $cmd, $out, $err;

print "OUT: $out ERR: $err\n";

map {print "$_\n"}<$out>;
map {print "$_\n"}<$err>;

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Re^3: Using SYSTEM2 on Windows
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 27, 2009 at 20:38 UTC 
    use IPC::Run3 qw( run3 );

my $cmd = "cmd /D/C dir";
run3 $cmd, undef, \my @out, \my @err;

print "STDOUT: $_" for @out;
print "STDERR: $_" for @err;

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    @out and @err can be scalars if you don't need the lines to be split

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      Oh! I see now. Works perfectly! You guys amaze me by what you know. Thanks!
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