Date: 4 Sep 2001 00:37:06 GMT
From: damian@qimr.edu.au (Damian James)
Subject: Re: Open 2 exes from Perl
Message-Id: <slrn9p88ee.7u8.damian@puma.qimr.edu.au>

Bart Lateur chose Mon, 03 Sep 2001 11:30:51 GMT to say this:
>George K wrote:
>
>>The closest I've come is 
>>system ('c:\winnt\notepad.exe');
>
>	system 'start', 'notepad';
>

That might work on 95/98/ME/etc and other dos-based systems (don't know,
haven't tried), but does nothing on NT -- where 'start' is a 'cmd.exe'
builtin command.

	system('cmd /c start your_program.exe');

But this is OT (and the system() call doesn't change that :-).

Cheers,
Damian
(who has also been bitten on some platforms by confusing shell builtins
with programs :-).
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