note Anonymous Monk <P>You want to use [mod://Capture::Tiny], it works on win32, it does it through fork+exec and presents a beautiful interface <C>use Capture::Tiny 'capture'; my ($out, $err) = capture { print "ya"; Text::BibTeX ... system ... }; print "captured out((($out))) err((($err)))"; </C> 929318 929318 1