I'm on 98SE and it seems to work OK for me. Are u sure ur program is
printing to STDOUT and not STDERR?
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>perl
$a = `hostname`;
print $a;
========
attic
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>perl
$a = system("hostname");
print $a;
========
attic
0
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>
At 08:00 PM 7/26/05 -0700, robert wrote:
>but when i call this executable from Perl on a Win98 system, it will not assign
>the resulting output at all. it wont even print it to the screen.
>
>ive tried a number of methods:
>
> $result=system("myprogram.exe $arguments");
> print " found: [$result]\n";
>
>or
>
> $result=`myprogram.exe $arguments`;
> print " found: [$result]\n";
>
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