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To: "Perl Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:23 PM
Subject: system() problem in win98
>
> i have the following function call
>
> $filename_winword="C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/WINWORD.EXE";
>
> $result->{DOCUMENT_NAME}= the filename from the database.
>
> system ("start"," ",$filename_winword,"/n ",
"docs/$result->{DOCUMENT_NAME}");
>
> Although it works great under Win2000 system, when i run it on a win98
system
> it doesn't work.
>
> Has anyone faced a similar problem?
>
Hi -
I doubt your problem has anything whatsoever to do with
perl. Open a command window on your Win 98 system
and mimic what you are trying to do via perl.
Aloha => Beau;
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