Do you say that the start doesn't work under win98? However, the DDE for
the .DOC is the same with the win2k.
Quoting "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Subject: system() problem in win98
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> >
> > i have the following function call
> >
> > $filename_winword="C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/WINWORD.EXE";
> >
> > $result->{DOCUMENT_NAME}= the filename from the database.
> >
> > system ("start"," ",$filename_winword,"/n ",
> "docs/$result->{DOCUMENT_NAME}");
> >
> > Although it works great under Win2000 system, when i run it on a win98
> system
> > it doesn't work.
> >
> > Has anyone faced a similar problem?
> >
>
> Hi -
>
> I doubt your problem has anything whatsoever to do with
> perl. Open a command window on your Win 98 system
> and mimic what you are trying to do via perl.
>
> Aloha => Beau;
>
>
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