I have a command: `"c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE.EXE" $outdoc`; It routinely hangs when the user while viewing the $outdoc in IE selects "Print" from the file menu. It's as if IE is still waiting for the print command to come back from the great beyond. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I did also try: system("c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE.EXE" $outdoc); It doesn't display at all. It just flashes the cmd box. There was a reference to "try start" on one of the postings I found with supersearch but the syntax wasn't given and I couldn't find a reference to "start" in the camel books. I also fiddled with  exec`"c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE.EXE" $outdoc`; but that hangs as well and if I try exec(...) the interpreter barfs on the compile.

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