Trying to get SYSTEM2 module to work on Windows using Activestate Perl 5.8 or 5.10. Here is a quick test script that works on Unix, but not Windows (this is the windows version): 
use System2;
my  ($out,$err) = system2("cmd", "/C", "dir");
print "OUT: $out ERR: $err";

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There are 3 of us working on this problem and no one can figure out why it won't work. Something to do with the pseudo-threading? I've poked all around System2.pm and haven't a clue. Best I can tell is data is not coming back through the pipe. Another person thinks it has something to do with the child PID returning a negative value (which means its a pseudo-thread). 5.10 seems to crash when it opens STDERR. 5.8 will hang. Suggestions anyone?

In reply to Using SYSTEM2 on Windows by rthawkcom

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