>The command "perldoc -f open" shows you how to do get the output from a >command without starting a shell. >
Do you mean open a pipe? It still need to fork a child process for running the external commands. -- 祝所有中华Perl用户新春快乐! Happy New Year for all Chinese Perl guys! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
