On 11-04-05 10:11 AM, Chap Harrison wrote:
Is there any reason not to just use qx?
If you use open, any error is in $! which gives you somewhere to start looking if something goes wrong. If you use qx() or back-ticks, any error is in $? which is the child error. This is not an error message but a number which you have to decode and it might lead you to the problem.
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