>> I think the best I could hope for would be to write a perl script that >> generated a bat file and then I manually execute the bat file. I don't >> think there is anyway to automate the execution of the bat file. > >I'm sure that there is; if you can't put it into its own bat file, you >could have Perl itself execute it via the system() command. Since new >processes (such as those run with system()) inherit the environment,
Yeah: that is precisely the problem. The child inherits from the parent. Can I make the child manipulate the environment table in the parent? I don't think so. Please tell me I'm wrong. >it's easy to set up %ENV however you'd like. > >Hope this helps! > >--Tom Phoenix >Stonehenge Perl Training Tom, Please elaborate. I need to have an interactive command shell with the symbols set up. Anytime I run a perl program that uses backquotes or system, those symbols that are defined by perl will only be good for duration of the perl program and as soon as perl exits, I'll have a command prompt with none of the new symbols defined -- correct? I believe this is true for all *nix and windows shells. Thanks, Siegfried -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
