On Feb 4, meriwether lewis said: >The system() command in the following script is >failing with a: "No such file or directory" >error.
What makes you think the system() call is failing? $! only holds a usable value if something goes wrong. Is $rc equal to 0 or not? Only if $rc is non-zero will $! be useful. >@MakeCmd = ("nmake", "-f", "Nmakefile.mak"); >$rc = system(@MakeCmd); >print "rc = $rc -> $!\n"; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]