The problem is...
system processes aren't waiting for the previous process to complete. What is the best way to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Bill

if ($filename{$num}ne '')
            {
            system("/3rdparty/perl/bin/sunos5/lwp-request -p http://pr
+oxy-syr.global.lmco.com $hostname$url -C $user:$password>$temp$file")
+;    
            system("chmod 777 $temp$file");
            system("acroread -toPostScript $temp$file");
            system("lp -d ep5_hpp01 $temp *.ps");
            }

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2001-10-02 Edit by Corion - Fixed formatting, added CODE tags

In reply to system() not waiting by warwick

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