Re: Executing DOS "copy" command from perl script via web interface

2002-09-19 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Michael, My MUA believes you used Mutt/1.3.27i to write the following on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 at 7:06:32 PM. MK> In Perl, backslashes escape the character that follows them, just MK> like in C. If you want a literal backslash, you need either "\\" MK> or '\': MK> system("com

Re: Executing DOS "copy" command from perl script via web interface

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Kelly
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:00:06AM -0400, FlashGuy wrote: > Hi, Hi FlashGuy, > I have a web interface where I'm executing a compiled perl script. Within the perl >script I'm trying to execute a DOS command but its not working properly. > If I put my command in a batch file and execute the batch

Re: Executing DOS "copy" command from perl script via web interface

2002-09-17 Thread Tim Musson
Hey FlashGuy, My MUA believes you used PMMail 2000 Standard (2.20.2502) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;1) to write the following on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 at 8:00:06 AM. F> I have a web interface where I'm executing a compiled perl script. F> Within the perl script I'm trying to execut

Re: Executing DOS "copy" command from perl script via web interface

2002-09-17 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, FlashGuy wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a web interface where I'm executing a compiled perl script. Within the perl >script I'm trying to execute a DOS command but its not working properly. > If I put my command in a batch file and execute the batch file from the perl script >

Re: Executing DOS "copy" command from perl script via web interface

2002-09-17 Thread mmaunder
The file can't be found? Sounds like a DOS not a Perl problem. On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:00:06AM -0400, FlashGuy wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a web interface where I'm executing a compiled perl script. Within the perl >script I'm trying to execute a DOS command but its not working properly. > If

Executing DOS "copy" command from perl script via web interface

2002-09-17 Thread FlashGuy
Hi, I have a web interface where I'm executing a compiled perl script. Within the perl script I'm trying to execute a DOS command but its not working properly. If I put my command in a batch file and execute the batch file from the perl script it works. I know it's because copy is not a progr