Perl newbie - getting "system()" to return

From: Jean-Benoit MORLA (jbmorla_at_tiscali.fr)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: 31 Jan 2005 03:05:49 -0800

Hi,

I have to run 4 Windows XP Pro executables sequentially from a script.
Each executable has to be started after its predecessor.
I tried:

system( executable1 );
system( executable2 );

But the Command windows hangs until I kill the process from task
manager.
The second line never gets executed.
Also the script must not skip directly to the second line because each
executable needs the previous one to start up.
Is there another command in Perl than system()?
Many thanks

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