lance turner writes ..
>Thanks Jason for your reply.
>
>I tried using an absolute path for gzip, but I'm getting the
>same error.
>
>I don't understand why I can run gzip from the shell but can't run it
>through perl. I'm able to run tar and other programs using the system
>function but not g
lance turner writes ..
>I'm trying to use the system function to run the gzip program with
>the following line of code:
>
> $status = system("gzip $filename");
>
> where $filename is the file that is to be compressed
>
>It isn't working and a status of 65280 is being returned.
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I'm trying to use the system function to run the gzip program with
the following line of code:
$status = system("gzip $filename");
where $filename is the file that is to be compressed
It isn't working and a status of 65280 is being returned.
I've also tried other variations:
