Peter Scott wrote:
>
> At 11:35 AM 1/31/02 -0500, Dave Benware wrote:
> >The line system "dir foo.txt"; returned "Bad command or file name".
> >
> >foo.txt does exist and I can run dir foo.txt within a dos box just
> >fine. Interestingly to me, system "dir"; worked okay. I guess it
> >just wo
At 11:55 AM 1/31/02 -0500, Dave Benware wrote:
> > Nope. It just thinks that the name of the command you're running is "dir
> > foo.txt". Separate the arguments explicitly, e.g.,:
> >
> > C:\WINDOWS>perl -e "system qw(dir mouse.txt)"
>
>Yah, that works fine, tho I don't understand why. Is there