>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I'm surprised you even got this to work. I couldn't get backticks to
>> work on NT or 2K...I don't work in the 9x environments. But I read
>> somewhere that backticks are "not" supported on the Windows platforms
>> at all...
>You could not get them to work? Why did not you ask?
>Backticks ARE supposed to work!
>You only have to be a little careful with them. You have to
>distinguish between programs and cmd.exe/command.com builtin
>commands.
>And use
> $result = `$ENV{COMSPEC} /c echo Hello world`;
>Also please put your replies at the END of the message you are
>replying to and delete the unimportant parts of the old message.
>Especialy the footers.
>Jenda
Thank you all for the rapid responses especially Jenda for the syntax help
:).
The above proposed solution worked, mostly.
As it turns out Symantec Antivirus Corp. ED 7.5 causes issues
when real-time file protection is used. Disabling the real-time
scanning alone didn't solve the problem, nor did the above solution
fix the problem by its self. Combined, however I was able to
reliably operate backticks in Windows 98.
-Marc Labelle
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