>>>>> "Tony" == Tony McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Tony> I checked up on system and rewrote the line that
Tony> calls system. Now I have:

Tony> @args = ("$Basedir/ftpscr");
Tony> system(@args) == 0 or die "cannot execute ftpscr $!";

Tony> but the script is not executed. No errors are returned.

The $! there is a red herring.  It has nothing to do with your actual
launch error.  Until you tell us how you know it's "not executed",
there's not a lot more we can do.  All we know is that it is exiting
with a non-zero exit status, so you have to ask the author of ftpscr
why that is so.

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For the record, your question (including the closing "Tony") was a
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the final sig-like line) was 1103 characters.  Ludicrous, I tell you.
Get an account from a freemail host, IMMEDIATELY.  {sigh}

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