Greetings!

Sorry for maybe a kind of stupid question, but I (with very little previous knowledge of Perl) have to create an web interface to a simple DOS program (that uses standard command line I/O) running under IIS on XP. The problem is that there have to be running a number of instances of this program, and that the "system" command refers to the program only during the run of the script, and when the forms is refreshed, it does not recognize the program and it's prompt anymore, creating a new one.... Is there any way (assuming using pipes, but unknown to me how) to make this working, providing there is no way to change the program itself? If possible, please send the answer to ogasawara@yandex.ru

Thanks in advance :)

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