Hi, I've been using Perl for 10 days now and I have found the site extrememly useful and friendly. I am attempting to use the command line version of winzip to zip a file. The script works, but when I run it, a press any key to continue prompt appears and I have to press a key before it will do it's work. When I press a key it does what I expect. I think I should use '<', but I'm not sure where to put it. I tried inside the ticks after I invoke winzip and pass the filenames, but I still had to manually hit a key. Here is the code of my script. Thank you very much 
my $input = "c:/Backups/UCSRSQL01/sortedREFDATAList.txt";

open(INPUT, $input) ;

my $zipfile = <INPUT> ;
my $path = "C:/Backups/UCSRSQL01";

$zipcommand = `"c:/program files/winzip/wzzip" $path/refdatabak.zip $p
+ath/$zipfile`;

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