> Yeah, Tony your sturcture worked fine... except....
> 
> system "tar cvf ./test.tar *.grib"
> if ($? == 0) {
>         print "\nSuccess!\n";
> }
> else {
>        print "\nUnsuccessful!\n";
> }

Perl programmers are lazy, and don't use things like '== 0' almost 100% of the time.  
The
following should work better:

if ($?) {
   ...
}
else {
   ...
}

It is obvious that in the sucessful case $? is not set to 0.  If it still doesn't 
work, just print
the value of $? and see what you get.

Jonathan Paton

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