Hey all. I am subscribing to the alt.perl newsgroup. find some good stuff, find a
bunch over my head. FYI.
Chris
Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 03:18:25 EST
> Adam Wendt said:
>
> >First off does anyone know of an email list thats dedicated to just asking
> >stupid questions about how to do stuff in perl so that I don't have to bother
> >the list with my questions?
>
> Check perl.com, they probably have one listed. comp.lang.perl.misc used to be
> great for this, but they're very big into RTFM, since it has an excellent M to
> R :)
>
> >....but until someone answers the first question I might as well ask a second
> >one
>
> Sure, one more won't kill us ;)
>
> >Whats the best way in perl to run an external command and if while executing
> >the command I hit ctrl + c it will just cancle the external command and contin
> >ue on with the script instead of bailing out of everything?
>
> Well, that's kind of tough. You probably want a system command to exec an
> external command, but in order to deal with ctrl+c, you'll have to trap the
> key sequence yourself, and deal with it elsewhere in your code.
> --
>
> Seeya,
> Paul
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