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in thread How do I get Perl to run nslookup?

Hey suaveant, Thanks for your excellent response. I ran the idea with my boss, and she likes the idea. It also produces less red-tape from UNIX than my previous example. Will definately ask you, or the other gurus for help, should the problem arise. Robert
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Re: Re: Re: How do I get Perl to run nslookup?
by suaveant (Parson) on May 09, 2001 at 00:08 UTC
    No problem...

    many unix utils have command-line utils so they can be called from scripts or as an alias, but if all else fails you need a package like Expect which pretends to be a user, basically...
                    - Ant