capturing a return status on NT

[Morse, Loretta]

Hello,

While running a perl script on NT is there a way to capture the return
status
of a command? I know how to do this on unix but it seems to be different
on NT. I know there is a variable called errorlevel on NT but not sure how
to access this from a perl script.

Here is what I'm trying to do...
$status = `cleartool co -nc foo.c`;

$status ends up with the stderr output, not the status of how successful the
command was.
Anybody familiar with this on NT?

Thanks.