in reply to Re^3: Windows: system() and PAUSE
in thread Windows: system() and PAUSE

Does c:\WINNT\system32 appear in your path?
Yes, otherwise system('cmd /c ls.exe') and system('pause') wouldn't work either; plus, I would get an error message saying that CMD is not found.

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Re^5: Windows: system() and PAUSE
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 09, 2010 at 12:06 UTC

    Do you have an environment varible PERL5SHELL defined?

      No!

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