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in reply to Re^2: How to execute dos commands from Perl
in thread How to execute dos commands from Perl

Then how come you say it was executed in a UNIX shell? Are you using Cygwin? Are you trying to execute a .Net program on UNIX?

Just to be clear, by "dos prompt" and "dos commands" do you mean the Windows cmd.exe shell?