> From: Forward Design [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I have Windows 2000, latest Apache installed for Windows, and latest Active > Perl installed. > > I want to have a webpage, when a user clicks on a button, it runs a perl > script > > on my server (my machine), that then runs a Windows program on the server, > which > > spits out a file, that the user can then download. > > The perl script is using the command: > > system('d:\myprog.exe'); > > When that command is executed, my machine just sits there.
Maybe the program did not get the expected parameters, could you try to make a tiny app that just writes whatever parameters it was started with to a log file and ends and run that one? Another option, could you try to use Shell.pm to run the program? Or even try the new beta version at http://jenda.krynicky.cz/Shell.pm HTH, Jenda =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ========== There is a reason for living. There must be. I've seen it somewhere. It's just that in the mess on my table ... and in my brain. I can't find it. --- me _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
