On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Kevin Carothers wrote: > On 4/14/05, Dan Baumbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running a perl script that checks the viability of a server. I have > > the script scheduled to run every 5 minutes. That means every five > > minutes I have a command window flash on the computer as the script is > > being run. Is there any way to keep this command window from comming > > up? The script sends an email if there is server failure so I don't > > need to see any direct output from the script. > > > > Thanks in advance for your answers. > > > > - Dan. > > > > Hi Dan! > > Try this; > > use Win32::OLE;
You don't need Win32::OLE for Win32::SetChildShowWindow(). > [---] > > my($sysCmd) = "cmd.exe /c mypgm.exe"; > Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0); ## make the DOS window invisible > system($sysCmd); That works to suppress command windows for child processes. To suppress the command window of the perl program itself, just run it via wperl.exe instead of perl.exe. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
