Thanks to the person who suggested EXETYPE as the solution to my problem. That solved the problem perfectly.

But in testing, I discovered a new wrinkle.

I set Window's associations so that the extension .pl is matched to wperl, it calls wperl.exe and runs the script. If I set it to associate Perl.exe, it also runs perfectly, but with the dos box. So far so good.

If I call the wperl interpreter from Win2k's DOS commandline, it all works perfectly. But when the big commercial program makes the exact same call using it's "run program" operation, the commandline parameters are lost. But when I set the associations back to perl.exe, the commandline parameters are passed properly. Yet when called from the DOS commandline, the cmdline params are passed properly both to perl and wperl.

Any ideas why?

Thanks, Nat

In reply to More on Hiding DOS Windows by wa4otj
in thread Hiding the DOS window.. by wa4otj

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