> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sugumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Redirecting Output
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying this command from my perl program system ( 
> "perldoc perldsc > 
> tmp.txt"). I don't see the output going to the file tmp.txt; 
> instead it 
> shows the output
> in the screen.How could I get the output in some text file.

I assume you're doing this on Windows, since what you've shown should work
fine on Unix.

Try this:

   system("perl -S perldoc -t perldsc >tmp.txt");

perldoc is actually a .bat file on Windows, and batch files don't seem to
handle redirection properly on certain versions of Windows.

HTH

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