At the end of your perl program, add the line: system( "PAUSE" );
http://www.computing.net/programming/wwwboard/forum/3270.html HTH, Jason "Gary Rocco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 001301c290f9$02bad3d0$93b500c7@hppavilion">news:001301c290f9$02bad3d0$93b500c7@hppavilion... when i ran perl programs using windows 98 operating system, i double clicked on the program name in windows explorer. i kept the program files right in the C:\Perl directory. the programs would open a command prompt type console window and execute. the console window remained open until i clicked on the X to close it. now i have a new hp pavilion pc running windows xp. everything else being the same, when i run the perl programs from windows explorer, the console window opens, executes and closes before i can see anything in it. i realize that if i open the command prompt, i can see the program results but i would like to be able to run the programs directly from windows. i have tried changing the suffix from .pl to .bat(using pl2.bat). the results are the same either way. thank you gary rocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
