How did you open the DOS window? What does this have to do with perl, anyway??? P.S. please send ONLY PLAIN TEXT to mailing lists. - - Martin
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerald Preston Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 10:44 To: 'Gregg Morrison'; activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: How to kill a dos window The "exit" in the batch file worked great. I tried this in win 98 and it kills the command, but leaves the dos window open. Do you know of any way to kill the open dos window in 98? ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregg Morrison Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 4:30 AM To: Gerald Preston; activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: How to kill a dos window Try the "/K" Switch - %COMSPEC% /K X:\path\batchfile.ba - OR - Last line in Batch File: "Exit" _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs