There's one thorny thing to be careful of here, regardless of whether you
use DOS batch scripting or Perl or whatever. If the application you invoke
fires off a sub-application and then quits, then you may run into trouble.
Many of the Microsoft installers work this way, unfortunately; they have an
app called "setup.exe" which spawns subprocesses (usually acmsetup.exe) and
as soon as the child processes are started the main setup.exe process quits,
fooling anything that's waiting into thinking that the whole install is
completed. I don't know whether Perl is smart enough to wait for child
processes of the parent if the parent dies.
john
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