On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 05:55 PM, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Also, you might want to do
>
> system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags other_arguments") 
> or
> die "script failed: $?";

Elaine, are you using perl 6 already or something? =)

   That should be, annoyingly:

system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags other_arguments")
   and die "script failed: $?";

   or, slightly more clearly:

system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags 
other_arguments") == 0
   or die "script failed: $?";


  -Ken

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