> I had Initially tried using 'eval' however it seemed to me that no
> exceptions were thrown by the function call within the eval {system...} but
> within the called program itself, I may be wrong. In either case that method
> brought me no success unfortunately.
Admittedly, I should have read your original post more closely. The program
your calling with system fails, not the system call itself, so eval would not
catch this. Have you considered using the backtick operator and inspect the
output for errors? This might not be feasible if the called program has a large
amount of output that might mimic what error text you're looking for.
Rodger
