Thanks...that did it. I never knew there was a difference between the two!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A silly question...I think > OK, maybe I'm just being thick-headed, but I can't quite figure out > how to clear the command prompt screen from my perl script. > > I've tried back-ticking "cls", but that doesn't do anything. > > Am I missing something? Try system("cls"), backticks will create a new instance of cmd.exe, system won't. Steve _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
