launching an external program from perl

[lpollock]

i'm writing a cgi program that will let me control winamp with my wap phone. i want to be able to launch winamp.exe from the cgi/perl script with 'system', but the way it works now it perl waits for winamp to close before it returns control to the script, so it just hangs. is there a way in perl to launch an external program and return control to the script (basically forget about the external program)? thanks!

 

[sesth]

Use
system('start winamp.exe');

Thomas