Before going any further, you might want to tell us what operating system you are using. As far as I know, the << operator can be used to feed a program certain input as if it came from STDIN, but I've never used it because it always sounded a bit kludgy to me.
-----Original Message----- From: june tantoolvesm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: system() command Hi, I hope this is the right mailing list. I have two questions. 1. I was wondering if anyone here knows what this command is doing, besides calling the program "neighbor"? system ("neighbor >/dev/null 2>&1 << ! $inpwd 2 3 Y <snip> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
