RE: Start the browser as background process

2007-11-22 Thread Jan Dubois
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Kenneth Ölwing wrote: > > > system "\"C:\\Programme\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" $website"; > > wait, until the browser window is closed. > Some: > > Look into Win32::Process (I believe it's called). The CreateProcess call > has flags to control this. > > Crude, but

Re: Start the browser as background process

2007-11-22 Thread Kenneth Ölwing
> system "\"C:\\Programme\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" $website"; > wait, until the browser window is closed. Some: Look into Win32::Process (I believe it's called). The CreateProcess call has flags to control this. Crude, but since you're using 'system', run cmd.exe and there use the

Start the browser as background process

2007-11-22 Thread Walter . Laub
Hello, I want to start a browser window, but as background process, so my script will continue to run: My example: system "\"C:\\Programme\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" $website"; wait, until the browser window is closed. Any suggestions? Walter Laub

Problems with environment variables in a commandline

2007-11-22 Thread Walter . Laub
Hello, test.pl, which start a child command line: use strict; system 'cmd'; Following scenario: cmd # open an windows commandline set TEST=ö # german umlaut "ö" set TEST TEST=ö # as expected, it return the correct value test.pl # the perl script open a subshell set TES