Dear Alistair,
I mean literal system restart. That is, whenever I am executing the external commands as described in my original mail(I am sorry for the TYPO error but I didn't make that mistake in the script) the system is literally getting restarted/rebooted. I need to login again and start my work. I executed the some of those commands on my colleagues system(Win98, ActivePerl-version 620) and they executed fine. One thing I observed here was surprising. I observed that without the presence of COMMAND.COM in the working directory I was not able to execute those commands therealso. But, the system didn't restart/reboot it either hanged or displayed "Incorrect DOS version" message. Hence, I copied the COMMAND.COM to my working directory as workaround per now. Kindly let me know if my understandings/observations are wrong. Rajesh. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: URGENT: problem executing external commands in my perlscript Rajesh, What exactly do you mean by system restart? Does perl -V run or a one liner printing hello world? Your code has a syntax error. open(DIR,"dir |) || die "$PROG: couldn't execute dir command: $!|n"; should read open(DIR,"dir |") || die "$PROG: couldn't execute dir command $!" if you put a "\n" (not a "|n") you will surpress the "at line n" text which is very useful when you are debugging As for "Incorrect DOS version". Something's very odd there. Are you running command.com rather than cmd on NT or something? Alistair _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
