LPM: Running system() on a WinNT box

[Rich Bowen]

Wesley wrote:
> 
> How does this sound:  if the command to create the at job is static, put
> all the nasty stuff in a regular batch file, then use perl's system to
> run the batch file.  If the guts of the command can change, then write
> the command out to a batch file and use system() to run the dynamically
> created batch file.  That way the batch file can have exactly the
> characters in it that at and Windows want it to have, without having to
> indulge Perl as well.  HTH.

There's also a bizarre tool that used to come with ActivePerl that would
turn a perl program into a batch file. Or it might have been the other
way around.

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