"Vorl�nder, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC, perl's system() function spawns on VMS, so the easiest
> way probably is (untested!)
>
> $pages = $pdf->Pages;
> system("PDFPAGES == $pages");
>
> I guess there also is the possibility to access the
> LIB$SET_SYMBOL routine.
Not useful, for pretty much the same reason system ("set default [foo]")
is not useful. DCL symbols are local to a process. The proposed code
spawns a subprocess and creates DCL symbol PDFPAGES in that subprocess.
The subprocess then exits, and the DCL symbol disappears.
Tom Wyant
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