running another program 1

[pwu]

I'm programming Perl in Win32 environment.<br>I've tried to run another program by using the system()<br>But sometime it's working, sometimes not.<br>example:<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;system(&quot;notepad.exe&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;#working<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;system(&quot;Excel.exe&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;#working<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;system(&quot;AcroDist.exe&quot; #not work<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>I even specified the file path for the &quot;AcroDist.exe&quot;<br>program, but it still doesn't work.&nbsp;&nbsp;I feel this function<br>only works for Microsoft applications. If you have any<br>solution, please let me know.... Thank you so much.<br>

 

[pwu]

I have found what the problem is, thank you <br>for read my question<br><br>solution:<br><br>use this (cause the path got space)<br>system(&quot;\&quot;d:\\program files\\distillr\\AcroDist.exe\&quot;&quot;<br><br>not this<br>system(&quot;d:\\program files\\distillr\\AcroDist.exe\&quot;

 

[oinkers]

Are u in the right directory when running the program?<br>I tried spawning a child process and it worked for me.<br>like:<br><br><br>chdir('c:\program files\perl builder');<br>system('pbuilder.exe');<br>

 

[pwu]

Thank you! Oinkers, your tip works.