I think that your problem is that the "english readable" error isn't being produced by "net". It's comming from someplace else (the OS). If you redirect STDERR, you'll see that STDERR from the call to net is not the "english readable" message. I'm testing this on 2000, so I can't verify the results on NT. Here's my results. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $results = `net use f: \\\\SERVER\\c\$ 2>&1`;
print "results contains - $results\n";

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results - 
C:\dev>map.pl
results contains - System error 1202 has occurred.

An attempt was made to remember a device that had previously been reme
+mbered.

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On NT, your whole error message may be in STDERR. It's not in 2000 though.

Hope this helps..
Rich

update: I'm an idiot. The entire message is in $results. So forget I mentioned that the whole thing wasn't sent to STDERR. I assumed it wasn't because of the new lines. I guess that's what I get for thinking! :)

In reply to Re: capturing error messages from backticks or system by rchiav
in thread capturing error messages from backticks or system by Piercer

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