There's no way to turn off the console when you run perl.exe; it needs to have somewhere for its STDOUT and STDERR to go (even if you never print anything there). One solution is to "compile" your program with perlapp and use the -gui switch on perlapp. - - Martin
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerald Preston Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:31 PM To: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: How to kill a dos window How to reduce the dos window when running the batch job? _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs