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On 22 Jan 2007, at 13:14, David Landgren wrote: > Andy Armstrong wrote: >> On 21 Jan 2007, at 13:28, Abe Timmerman wrote: >>> I see now that on OpenVMS you also use IPC::Open3, that in turn >>> uses fork(). fork() is not implemented on OpenVMS, so this will >>> not work. >>> >>> Although I'm not a VMS expert, I do have a testdrive account, and >>> can test some stuff if that helps. >> Does anyone know the idiom for launching a process and capturing >> its output on VMS? If we can get that I'll plug it into TAPx::Parser. > > It's been over 10 years since I played with it, but I'm pretty sure > it Just Works: vmsperl does the redirection itself. You can > > system( "perl test.t 2>&1 >test.out" ); > > and the startup code within the perl interpreter strips out and > performs the redirection. By the time you start running test.t, > @ARGV is empty, but stdout and stderr are redirected. > > Try perldoc vmsperl for more details. http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/vms/perlvms.html Got it, thanks. I'll have a read. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.netThread Previous | Thread Next