Hi
I am having trouble getting a DOS executable program to run from my PERL
script. I have been successfully running the scripts under Apache 2.0 and
ActivePERL 5.8 on my XP box, with both the local client and remote clients.
When I uploaded the script to my webhost which run IIS5 I get an "Access
Denied". The webhost's support have been unable to help me.
I have am now trying it out on my IIS5.0 on Windows 2000, and although I am
not getting the same error message, my application is not running as
expected.
I thought it might be easier to use a different DOS program than my app in
case it was the problem so I have been trying the old faithful pkunzip.exe
and am getting some unexpected results.
If you start pkunzip at a command prompt without any parameters eg
c:\>pkunzip
then you get a help message sent to stdout..
To test an archive you start PKUnzip
c:\pkunzip -t myzip.zip
and if the zipis is ok then a message verify the integrity of the zip is
sent to stdout.
Various version of my PERL script to start PKUnZip have been
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w
#unzip.pl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
system("pkunzip")
print "<html>" ;
system("pkunzip.exe -t myzip.zip")
print "Done" ;
print "</html>" ;
The only output is "Done":
changing the System line to:
system("cmd /c pkunzip.exe");
is far better as I receive the expected Help message
I eventually got at least something along the lines I wanted with with:
system("cmd","/c","pkunzip.exe","-t",
"c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\cgi-bin\\myzip.zip")
However although it can fine the myzip.zip file the error message coming
from PKUnzip is that is can't open it?
I can run the script from the Command Prompt by just type zip.pl and it runs
fine.
Can anyone shed some light on this.
By the way, I think I mentioned it earlier but I have no problems when
running this under Apache.
Thanks
Brian
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