--- $Bill Luebkert wrote:

>  robert wrote:
>  
>  > when i call this executable from Perl, on my WinXP system, and assign
>  > its resulting output to a variable, it works great.  i'm able to parse
>  > the result for the values im looking for.
>  > 
>  > but when i call this executable from Perl on a Win98 system, it will not
>  > assign the resulting output at all.  it wont even print it to the
>  > screen.  
>  
>  
>  A few more things you can try:
>  
>  1) use a shell:
>  
>  	my $result = system "$ENV{COMSPEC} /C myprogram.exe $arguments");


that did it.

thank you!



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