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I find that all of the windows platforms will scan the a:\ drive when explorer or a dos window was closed while A:\ was the last selected drive. &nbsp;You may want to try a chdir in the script. &nbsp;IE:<br />
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....<br />
chdir($ENV{TEMP});<br />
shell;<br />
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It is something you may wish to try.
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I find that all of the windows platforms will scan the a:\ drive when explorer or a dos window was closed while A:\ was the last selected drive.  You may want to try a chdir in the script.  IE:

....
chdir($ENV{TEMP});
shell;

It is something you may wish to try.

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Whenever I do<br />
&nbsp; system(some_cmd);<br />
or<br />
&nbsp; `some_cmd`;<br />
where some_cmd is a dos cmd located remotely on a network; my computer always accesses the a: drive.<br />
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This seriously slows down the perl scripts I am trying to run.<br />
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I suspect it is something to do with my Windoze platform - I'm running Win98.<br />
I've tried different ports of perl, and checked my system paths for inclusion of a:\.<br />
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I've also noticed this behaviour on other windoze machines, so it's not just my computer.<br />
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The only way I've managed to get round the a:\ drive access is to get perl to dynamically generate a local batch file (which invokes the some_cmd) and then use system() to run the batch file - still very slow, though.<br />
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Any ideas of how to stop my computers curiosity for the contents of my a: drive?<br />

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Whenever I do
  system(some_cmd);
or
  `some_cmd`;
where some_cmd is a dos cmd located remotely on a network; my computer always accesses the a: drive.

This seriously slows down the perl scripts I am trying to run.

I suspect it is something to do with my Windoze platform - I'm running Win98.
I've tried different ports of perl, and checked my system paths for inclusion of a:\.

I've also noticed this behaviour on other windoze machines, so it's not just my computer.

The only way I've managed to get round the a:\ drive access is to get perl to dynamically generate a local batch file (which invokes the some_cmd) and then use system() to run the batch file - still very slow, though.

Any ideas of how to stop my computers curiosity for the contents of my a: drive?


win32: Curious about the A: drive

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