Hi,

I am having trouble with the "start" command.

Here is the contents of the PERL5SHELL environment variable:

    c:\>echo %PERL5SHELL%
    cmd.exe /c
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Calling the "dir" command works fine:

    c:\>perl -e "system(\"dir\")"
     Datenträger in Laufwerk C: ist SYSTEM
     Volumeseriennummer: CA02-1E1F
    
     Verzeichnis von c:\
    
    03.08.2012  14:24    <DIR>          cygwin
    09.10.2012  18:01    <DIR>          Daten
    ...
    10.10.2012  08:59    <DIR>          Windows
                   2 Datei(en),         15.460 Bytes
                  15 Verzeichnis(se), 144.527.847.424 Bytes frei
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Calling "start dir" from Perl does not work:

    c:\>perl -e "system(\"start dir\")"
    start: dir: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
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Calling "start dir" directly opens a new window with the output from above:

    c:\>start dir
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Any idea what might cause this behaviour??

Yours

Markus

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