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Starting a Perl script with no command prompt window PeteOlcott 03-10-2008
Posted by PeteOlcott on March 10, 2008, 10:10 am
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 Does anyone know how to start a Perl script as an MS Windows XP Pro
"Scheduled Task" and either have no "command prompt" window, or have
the "command prompt" window be created as minimized?

Posted by ccc31807 on March 10, 2008, 10:39 am
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> Does anyone know how to start a Perl script as an MS Windows XP Pro
> "Scheduled Task" and either have no "command prompt" window, or have
> the "command prompt" window be created as minimized?

Create a batch file that runs the Perl script. Schedule the batch file
as a scheduled task.

CC

Posted by Jürgen Exner on March 10, 2008, 10:50 am
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>Does anyone know how to start a Perl script as an MS Windows XP Pro
>"Scheduled Task"

Same as any other scheduled task.

>and either have no "command prompt" window, or have
>the "command prompt" window be created as minimized?

Call wperl.exe (part of AcitveState Perl) instead of perl.exe as the
interpreter.

jue

Posted by Ben Morrow on March 10, 2008, 11:03 am
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> Does anyone know how to start a Perl script as an MS Windows XP Pro
> "Scheduled Task" and either have no "command prompt" window, or have
> the "command prompt" window be created as minimized?

If you use wperl.exe instead of perl.exe, you don't get a command
window. Of course, if you call any external programs, they probably *do*
create one, so don't do that.

Ben


Posted by PeteOlcott on March 10, 2008, 11:57 am
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>
> > Does anyone know how to start a Perl script as an MS Windows XP Pro
> > "Scheduled Task" and either have no "command prompt" window, or have
> > the "command prompt" window be created as minimized?
>
> If you use wperl.exe instead of perl.exe, you don't get a command
> window. Of course, if you call any external programs, they probably *do*
> create one, so don't do that.
>
> Ben

None of these ideas seemed to work, but, I may have implemented them
incorrectly.

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