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If it still doesn't work, print $! after the system and see if it gives a meaningful error.<br />
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Another possibility is that the DLLs required by the program aren't in the PATH as inherited by your script, so it can't find them. Try printing $ENV{PATH} and see how it differs from the path you expect. The web server isn't logged on as you, so it might have a different path.<br />

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If it still doesn't work, print $! after the system and see if it gives a meaningful error.

Another possibility is that the DLLs required by the program aren't in the PATH as inherited by your script, so it can't find them. Try printing $ENV{PATH} and see how it differs from the path you expect. The web server isn't logged on as you, so it might have a different path.


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I want to call a compiled vbasic file (prog.exe) from a perl script on a NT server.<br />
I tried:<br />
system (&quot;prog.exe&quot;);<br />
and it did not work. &nbsp;What do I need to do?
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I want to call a compiled vbasic file (prog.exe) from a perl script on a NT server.
I tried:
system ("prog.exe");
and it did not work.  What do I need to do?

calling vb compiled (exe) from perl cgi

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages with over 25 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping and large-scale development projects.  Perl gained widespread popularity as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting language, in part due to its regular expression and string parsing abilities. In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications.