"Janek Schleicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:22:22 -0800, Mj wrote: > > > I am new to CGI. I just want to know if we can execute > > an application/exe file on the winnt server using the > > CGI script depending on the user form input over the > > net. > > And your Perl question is ... ? > > However, if you want to execute an exe file from Perl, > you just can use e.g. backticks: > > With e.g. > `format.exe c:` > you can remove that bug called Windows :-) > snd to the op, dont forget that if you are executing user input, you need to sanitize the data or the abouve will happen sooner or later.
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