Thanks, but again, no luck.  I do not have this problem if I use
robocopy but robocopy does not come with windows 2000 and I need it to
work on that as well.

On 7/1/05, Axel Mock <amock@[...].de>  wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  > The strange thing is that it won't work even if I put it in a batch
>  > file and call the batch file from perl.  I have tried changing the
>  > options used with xcopy also.  It seems that the xcopy call is just
>  > ignored by the system when the parent process is a PerlApp compiled
>  > script.
>  >
>  
>  my suggestion would be that you need to call xcopy with its path.
>  The shell that gets opened does NOT need to have the same
>  environment.
>  So put a $ENV{'SYSTEMROOT'}."\\SYSTEM32\\" in front of xcopy...
>  
>  Hope it helps,
>   Axel
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