Thank you Stefan, that works fine! The camel book is not at all clear for system/exec syntax... -C
-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Lidman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No dice;details . RE: run in background from qx//? >Stefan... > The line I'm trying to execute looks like: > >"/dir/dir2/program -a -a -B 50000000 -c $var1 -d value $var2&" > > I'm trying to do this with 'system' and failing. How would you >parse this run line for 'system' to execute? > -Chris system '/dir/dir2/program -a -a -B 50000000 -c ' . $var1 . ' -d value '. $var2 .'&'; should work /Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]