> can you achieve what you want using Threads or do you have a > specific need to create a Win32 process?
The call to Win32::Process::Create is internal to IPC::Run http://search.cpan.org/~rsod/IPC-Run/, but maybe Terry's program only needs the simplified features implemented by IPC::Run3 http://search.cpan.org/~rbs/IPC-Run3/ which doesn't use Win32::Process? Cheers, Roderich
