> If > you wish to create a new Perl function that means "evaluate this string > as if it were issued on a Unix system and then set up an environment and > execute it accordingly" please feel free to do so. But I'd be opposed > to modifying the expectations or operation of "system".
As I said previously, that would be a perfectly acceptable solution. But as it is now Perl isn't up the to task of running scripts on VMS for my application.
