I think that XCOPY uses STDERR for some of its on-screen printing. You
could try to redirect that to a file and then read that in later:
open(STDERR,">errlog.txt");
should work.
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Subject: Can't take stdout in w98 xcopy
Triyng
$x=qx(xcopy a:\\1*.* c:\\tmp);
print"\n after \n$x \n before \n";
this is how it looks my dos session
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C:\WINDOWS\Escritorio>perl -w kk.pl
13feb.zip
1 archivos copiados
after
before
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I think xcopy (and other dos commands, Nbtstat.exe, ...) do not send
data to
stdout
¿how could i do to catch that data?
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