[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi! I've written a perl cgi script to create a web page. Now what I'd
> like to do is to execute an Octave script from the Perl one and get
> its output inside my perl script. I'm working on a Windows XP machine.
> I tried $result = `C:/Program\ Files/GNU\ Octave\ 2.1.50/bin -q
> my_script.m`; but $result is still null.
Is "bin" really the name of the execuatble, or is it a directory name?
Something seems to be missing.
Also, those backslashes aren't doing anything for you, AFAIK.
You might want to write that as:
`"C:/Program Files/GNU/Octave 2.1.50/bin/????" -q my_script.m`
^^^^
program name here
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