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Re: Re: johnb-sender


  • Subject: Re: Re: johnb-sender
  • From: John B
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 08:46:00 +0000

> argh. it's because i'm trying to run it from a perl script. perl
> doesn't seem to like passing along those \n to system commands. i
> have it now calling a batch file which calls xplsend. roundabout but
> it works.

You should be able to get it to work directly from within Perl by using \\n
(i.e. double up the backslash).
Perl should correctly unescape this to \n.

HTH,

John






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