system and exec do two different things. system starts up another process, waits for it to finish, and then continues with the rest of the original process. exec replaces the current process with a new one.

However, if explorer.exe starts on the machine, but doesn't exhibit the wanted behaviour, it's not a matter of system vs exec. In fact, it's unlikely to be a Perl problem. What happens if you run the command from the command line? What happens if you run the command from a CGI program written in a different language than Perl? Could it be that the webserver sets up an environment that iexplorer.exe doesn't like?

Abigail

In reply to Re: system() or exec() in CGI scripts by Abigail-II
in thread system() or exec() in CGI scripts by LupoX

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